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Unconventional Ways to Speed up Your Computer

Unconventional Ways to Speed up Your PC
When Paul Boutin of the New York Times' Gadget Wise blog wanted to convert his aging Toshiba laptop into a blazing-fast, blogging powerhouse, he took some unconventional steps in the name of performance. For starters, one of his five controversial ways to speed up your PC is uninstalling your antivirus software, which is definitely a bad idea.

While we're on board with some of Boutin's other suggestions -- like switching your Web browser to Google Chrome instead Firefox or Internet Explorer, and using a flash drive with Windows ReadyBoost to speed up your computer's start-up time -- you really, REALLY shouldn't uninstall your antivirus software. Boutin says the danger of viruses and malware is over-hyped, but fails to give any facts to back up such an outrageous claim.

We do have one other suggestion we'd like to add to this list of five, if you're really looking for unconventional ways to speed up your PC -- switch to Linux. Linux is known for having much lower hardware requirements than either Windows or Mac OS X, and some versions (like Damn Small Linux) can still run reliably and quickly on computers over 10 years old. [From: NY Times]

Tags: linux, speed, techtips, top

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