Post by dayangnoorasmah on Apr 20, 2009 16:19:02 GMT 7
Was your computer fast the first the day you bought it? Was it faster when you installed your Operating system in it? Were the software installing at great speeds in the early days? Did you install an anti virus? And do you feel that your computer is slow after you restarted after installing the anti virus? Well, you guessed right.
An anti virus in a Windows PC is one of the major things that slow down your PC. But you cant do without one can you? Windows PCs are bound to get infected by viruses. But very few know that Linux PCs dont get infected by virus. Linux is immune to virus, but people still go after Windows.
Apart from virus scanners, other things that could slow down your PC could be high memory consuming applications, a corrupted or an overloaded registry, or a completely fragmented hard drive could slow down your system. Again if you are using linux, you could overcome most of these problems.
Well, for those of you who would really like to stick to windows and continue getting bugged and make Bill Gates richer, let me give you a few tips.
1. You could do without a virus scanner. I for one have been a guy who has been boasting around that I have run a Windows XP machine, that too a Pirated copy of XP which means absolutely no security updates or support from microsoft, for over 4 years, without having to format the drive a single time, without a single anti virus scanner. How? Dont stick in anything that you get. Insert only trusted DVDs or CDs. Visit only trusted sites. Dont download emails with attachments into your computers. Always use good services like gmail. Dont download any EXE file if you dont know what you are downloading. Follow these very simple rules, and you will never get a virus on your pc, and you can carry on without a virus scanner.
2. When you download software from sites like cnet or zdnet, you are likely to download adware, and all adware are spyware. The spyware gathers data from your pc, or check out what all kinds of sites you visit and what sort of emails you get, just to display relevent ads, as they justify it, but your privacy is being lost. Never download such software. For example, smileycentral is a spyware.
3. Decide what software you require right when you buy the PC. Dont install them with long gaps between each new software installation. This could have an effect on the registry, as well as the hard disk. And if a software is not working properly, dont just keep on uninstalling and reinstalling it. This is very harmful to the registry. Basically, a computer can work very well without a registry. Linux is working excellently. But excited by the possiblities of putting in numerous bugs in his OS and selling it for a price, Bill and his bullshit team has been doing it for about 10 years now.
4. Have seperate partitions in your hard drive. You dont have to do this at all on your linux file system ofcourse. But on windows, I feel it is mandatory. Use the first partition, the C:\ drive for your OS and your software. Never leave your files that would be constatnly modified, like any project file of any sort or any kind, and those tiny image files that are about 1 and 2 kb in size. They clutter your hard disk badly. If you have a large drive, split it into several partitions, where you categorize your files like ever expanding files, ever changing files, images, and videos. Images and videos dont change in size. MP3 doesnt either. But your project files always change in size and shape, and it could have an effect on the fragmentation of the hard disk, and if you have that on a seperate partition, it is easy to defragment without affecting the other files or much of CPU energy. And even if you let it remain fragmented, it will in no way affect the speed of the loading of the OS or the software.
5. Dont use software such as registry cleaner. It is easier to make sure that your registry is neat and that it doesnt have to be cleaned at all.
6. If you think you have installed too many softwares, and if the PF file usage is high, check the task manager and find out which application has been using too much of resources. And if you think that the particular application is using resources that are normal as per its manuals, get more ram.
7. If you use the messenger a lot, if you have a lot of contacts, you will be spammed. Bots will not let you live in peace. Tehy will send all kinds of links. Never click on one single link on a chat unless you know who the person is you are talking to. Likewise, never store mails in your hard disk with software like thunderbird if you dont have a virus scanner. And never click on any link on any mail unless you know who the mail is from, and the message seems to be personal and is not autogenerated, and the original owner of the id is not a victim of phishing or spoofing.
8. If you think all this is hard work, and if you dont have any windows specific software running on your machines, check out my list of open source equivalents for proprietary software, and move to linux. Use ubuntu, which is currently the best, and is a ture definition of open source.
source: podworks.in/?p=547
An anti virus in a Windows PC is one of the major things that slow down your PC. But you cant do without one can you? Windows PCs are bound to get infected by viruses. But very few know that Linux PCs dont get infected by virus. Linux is immune to virus, but people still go after Windows.
Apart from virus scanners, other things that could slow down your PC could be high memory consuming applications, a corrupted or an overloaded registry, or a completely fragmented hard drive could slow down your system. Again if you are using linux, you could overcome most of these problems.
Well, for those of you who would really like to stick to windows and continue getting bugged and make Bill Gates richer, let me give you a few tips.
1. You could do without a virus scanner. I for one have been a guy who has been boasting around that I have run a Windows XP machine, that too a Pirated copy of XP which means absolutely no security updates or support from microsoft, for over 4 years, without having to format the drive a single time, without a single anti virus scanner. How? Dont stick in anything that you get. Insert only trusted DVDs or CDs. Visit only trusted sites. Dont download emails with attachments into your computers. Always use good services like gmail. Dont download any EXE file if you dont know what you are downloading. Follow these very simple rules, and you will never get a virus on your pc, and you can carry on without a virus scanner.
2. When you download software from sites like cnet or zdnet, you are likely to download adware, and all adware are spyware. The spyware gathers data from your pc, or check out what all kinds of sites you visit and what sort of emails you get, just to display relevent ads, as they justify it, but your privacy is being lost. Never download such software. For example, smileycentral is a spyware.
3. Decide what software you require right when you buy the PC. Dont install them with long gaps between each new software installation. This could have an effect on the registry, as well as the hard disk. And if a software is not working properly, dont just keep on uninstalling and reinstalling it. This is very harmful to the registry. Basically, a computer can work very well without a registry. Linux is working excellently. But excited by the possiblities of putting in numerous bugs in his OS and selling it for a price, Bill and his bullshit team has been doing it for about 10 years now.
4. Have seperate partitions in your hard drive. You dont have to do this at all on your linux file system ofcourse. But on windows, I feel it is mandatory. Use the first partition, the C:\ drive for your OS and your software. Never leave your files that would be constatnly modified, like any project file of any sort or any kind, and those tiny image files that are about 1 and 2 kb in size. They clutter your hard disk badly. If you have a large drive, split it into several partitions, where you categorize your files like ever expanding files, ever changing files, images, and videos. Images and videos dont change in size. MP3 doesnt either. But your project files always change in size and shape, and it could have an effect on the fragmentation of the hard disk, and if you have that on a seperate partition, it is easy to defragment without affecting the other files or much of CPU energy. And even if you let it remain fragmented, it will in no way affect the speed of the loading of the OS or the software.
5. Dont use software such as registry cleaner. It is easier to make sure that your registry is neat and that it doesnt have to be cleaned at all.
6. If you think you have installed too many softwares, and if the PF file usage is high, check the task manager and find out which application has been using too much of resources. And if you think that the particular application is using resources that are normal as per its manuals, get more ram.
7. If you use the messenger a lot, if you have a lot of contacts, you will be spammed. Bots will not let you live in peace. Tehy will send all kinds of links. Never click on one single link on a chat unless you know who the person is you are talking to. Likewise, never store mails in your hard disk with software like thunderbird if you dont have a virus scanner. And never click on any link on any mail unless you know who the mail is from, and the message seems to be personal and is not autogenerated, and the original owner of the id is not a victim of phishing or spoofing.
8. If you think all this is hard work, and if you dont have any windows specific software running on your machines, check out my list of open source equivalents for proprietary software, and move to linux. Use ubuntu, which is currently the best, and is a ture definition of open source.
source: podworks.in/?p=547