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Performance Tip of the Day
05.Feb.08 | 3 Comments
My home machine is ailing. Spontaneous reboots, odd errors, blue screens, etc. After some tests I believe I either have a bad SATA card (likely) or the 400 GB SATA drive hanging from that card is going south (less likely considering the symptoms). As I don’t have spares of either — and I want stability [...]
Custom Firefox Builds
03.Sep.07 | 2 Comments
With a nudge from a comment by Paul, I went searching for customized Firefox builds this afternoon. I wanted to see if I couldn’t speed up Firefox on my old Thinkpad 600e a bit.
It didn’t take too long before I found mmoy’s Windows Builds page — and there’s even a build for the old [...]
How to Slow Windows
12.Sep.06 | Leave a Comment
Curious about what you can install to slow down Windows the most? Check out this article, titled, “What Slows Windows Down?” While the author doesn’t cover every piece of software in the world (he has a life) it’s still a good read. Oh, and keep in mind he’s primarily (only?) measuring boot [...]
