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Speed Up Windows - Disable Services
In 2007 to 2009 there was an amazing peace of software for windows xp (but it worked perfectly for windows 7 as well) that used to display all the services running on a computer, what it was for and ...
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Is 1GB RAM so little?
I recently upgraded my old computer from Windows XP to Windows 7, and my computer became unbelievably slow. This is the hardware:
Intel Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz
1GB RAM
Radeon X800 GTO
By unbelievably ...
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Why are start-up times faster on Windows 7 than on XP? [closed]
Reading a hotter question Why are start-up times faster on Windows 8? There is a great answer there by ClickUpvote, which shows some design differences that makes 8 faster:
Difference between win7 ...
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Why is Windows 7 much slower than XP on the same machine? Can it be adjusted to be just as fast? [closed]
My computer has 2GB of RAM and a 2.00 GHz Core 2 Duo processor. I dual-boot Windows XP and Windows 7.
While I understand that Windows 7 has many improvements over XP architecturally, I just don't ...
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Disk cache: Preventing one process from grinding my machine to a halt?
I'm trying to run a very long and slow (but important) background process on my computer. It took all weekend and is still running.
The problem is that this process scans dozens of GBs of disk files (...
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VS2010 Performance [closed]
so i have this laptop Compaq Presario C700
intel T2310 + 2.5GB RAM + 120GB HDD + intel GMA 965
im running Windows 7 ultimate + VS2008
VS2008 is fast but VS2010 is sluggish and laggy idk why
i searched ...
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Would Windows XP provide better performance than Windows 7 on Intel Atom Z520?
I've bought a netbook Asus Eee 1101HA with Intel Atom Z520 1,33GHz and Windows 7.
Even though it is used for basic things (web browsing and simple photo edition in Picasa), its performance is ...
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