Christian / January 2, 2010 10:32 am
What is the advantage when we enable DMA on our Windows PC? DMA (also referred to as bus mastering) is a technique that some components and devices use to transfer data directly to and from memory without passing through the Central Processing Unit (CPU). DMA reduces CPU overhead by providing a mechanism for data transfers that do not require monitoring [...]
Christian / December 27, 2009 7:41 pm
Are you having problems with your slow PC? Want to just throw it away? Wait! You don’t have to do that! There’s still a chance to improve your PC’s performance. There is a software called SpeedUpMyPC, and as the name implies, it can help you speed up your PC! This software costs around $30 if you’ll buy it, but there’s [...]
Christian / November 28, 2009 10:49 am
One of the most effective ways of speeding up your PC is to uninstall all the unnecessary or unused programs on your computer. Windows has a built in uninstaller called “Add or Remove Programs” that you can find in Control Panel. But actually, there is a better way to remove/uninstall those unnecessary programs on your PC without using the Add [...]
Christian / November 28, 2009 9:58 am
Indexing Services is just a small program that uses large amounts of memory and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. Why? So that the next time you do a search on your PC, it will search faster by scanning the index [...]
Christian / November 14, 2009 11:25 am
Both Windows and application programs tend to leave temporary files on your hard drive, taking up space. Like in my case, I have McAfee Anti-virus installed on my PC and it always leaves a lot of temporary files when it is updating. A hard drive that is close to being “full” can cause Windows to slow down or interfere with [...]
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