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This will ENABLE the 20% bandwidth that the system reserves for itself.
Click Start and type and enter "gpedit.msc"

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth and set it to 0.

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Tweaking Prefetch

Prefetch is one of the commonly overlooked components that can have ...

The game is over - Microsoft won.

Windows 7 may have reached the top of the food chain because the "packman power pellets" created by companies that wrote software to run on Windows have all been gobbled up. Windows Security Essentials ate the last big one when it ate the AV power pellet. There are only a few crumbs left laying around like these:

1. A Backup program that would make a bootable backup.

2. A feature in email to bounce back spam ...

It will improve your chance of getting accurate help if you provide the following information:

Click "start" and type and enter "info" and let us know your version and build.

1. 32 or 64 bit version ? - Under "system type" x64 or x86 (x86 is the 32 bit version)

2. 7600 or earlier version ? - Under "version/build"

3. Clean install or upgrade?

4. Was it working then it broke?
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The amount of time you spend on your computer and the amount of testing and experimenting with new software you do would determine how often you should do maintenance. If you do not have these programs you can Google them. They are all free.

If you do not have these set to run as scheduled tasks they should be run first and if problems are found they need to be resolved.

Windows Security Essentials

Windows Defender



*** Then every ...

One of THE BEST features of the Internet is the Rss news feeds.

Rss news feeds are basically a list of news headlines (with a short synopsis) that are provided by (and sometimes extracted from) websites. The websites are usually news providers but you can also add message forums such as Hot Deals and blogs such as this one.

This is an incredible time saver because it takes you straight to the content with No waiting until advertisements to run their 15 second video interruptions ...