Tips for Longer PC life

1. Keep your PC in a smoke-free environment. Tobacco smoke can damage delicate contacts and circuits. 

2. Leave your PC running. Powering up from a cold state is one of the most stressful things you can do to your system's components.
If you don't want to leave your PC running all the time, use Windows' Power Management settings to put your machine into hibernation rather than completely shutting down.

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BOOT YOUR COMPUTER FASTER

Many computers take a lot of time to boot (or start ).This is due to many reasons.

Some slight changes can do wonders for your system:

1. Press start->run then type msconfig and press enter.

Go to the startup tab. Here you will see a list of startup items. These are all the programs that automatically start when you boot your PC. It is these that slow down the boot up process.

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Firefox or Nightly speed trick to load pages faster

Firefox is already a fast browser but did you know that you can tweak it to improve the speed even more?
Note: These settings are optimized for broadband connections.

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Speeding Up Your Old computer - Pentium by 50%

We all know that you really shouldn't try to run Windows XP on anything less that about a Pentium 3 of some sort if you are out for speedy operations and amazing reaction times, but for those of us with the good old Pentium 2's who want to see just how well we can run XP, we have to tweak as much as we can where-ever we can.

A real killer to the system's performance is Windows Media Player.

Although it may look desirable and fancy with it's rounded off edges and 3rd-Dimensional appearance, the truth is, it takes up a large amount of that precious processing power.

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