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Speeding Up Your PC, Part 5: Getting Secure

Speeding Up Your PC, Part 4: Managing Drivers One of the most dreaded words for any computer user is "malware." Rogue software andinfected files can implant bits of code that log keystrokes, spy on activities, slow downsearches and snatch financial information....

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Speeding Up Your PC, Part 4: Managing Drivers

Speeding Up Your PC, Part 3: Getting Crucial Updates Driver software manages the communications between a computer and its system components and peripherals, such as printers, graphic and sound cards, motherboards, game controllers, Bluetooth devices, and other hardware....

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Speeding Up Your PC, Part 3: Getting Crucial Updates

Speeding Up Your PC, Part 2: Clean Up Your Hard Drive Lots of people think that updates aren't really that important. In the past, updating a program often involved implementing small features or fixes that, most of the time, didn't seem worth the bother. While this may still be true for some applications, there's no doubt that updates are crucial ...

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Speeding Up Your PC, Part 2: Clean Up Your Hard Drive

Speeding Up Your PC, Part 1: Take Control of Your Programs What is hard-drive clutter, and why is it bad? ...

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Speeding Up Your PC, Part 1: Take Control of Your Programs

The most common complaint that people have about their computers is slow performance -- screens that seem to loadmore slowly, emails that seem to "hang" before opening. Too many users are frustrated by seeing their expensivemachines become bogged down by factors that are hard to identify, making the machines less efficient long beforethey've grown obsolete...

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