Computer Slow?

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Optimize It With The Right Tools


Why does it seem like every time you get a new computer it operates at lightning fast speeds for only a few months before becoming slow and laborious over its tasks? Is this just something that we have to live with or can we do something to keep our computers running at optimum speeds?

The truth is that computers do not get slower as they age, a slow computer is a sign that something is literally holding your PC back and affecting its performance. And the good news is that you can do something about it.

There are many things that can affect your computer’s performance, from low memory to a fragmented hard drive and everything in between. The things that can affect your computer’s performance are usually of your own doing. You see, each time we download a program or delete a program, we affect the way our computer operates. This change in operation can leave holes in our PCs operating procedures or may even leave behind programs that can affect our computer’s performance.

Here are just a few things that could be making your computer slow:

· Running Background Programs – These programs are software applications that are running behind the scenes even when they are not in use. You may not even know that they are running, but they can zap precious memory and slow down your other tasks considerably. To see if you have programs running in the background, press Ctrl + Alt + Delete at the same time. The box that pops up will show you all applications that are running.

· Full Hard Drive – If your hard drive is too full of data, it will not have enough space to perform chores. Your hard drive should have at lease 2MB to 3MB in free space.

· Fragmented Hard Drive – When you download and delete programs, you create holes in your hard drive. These holes mean that your PC has to search for the files it needs over greater distance and not necessarily in the order that it needs them.

· Left Over Parts – When you install and uninstall Windows programs, they leave behind parts or applications that can slow down your computer. You may even unknowingly delete a file needed for other software applications. (Note: Spyware and viruses can also slow down your PC’s performance, but for the purpose of this article we are assuming that the problem lies in application errors.)

Make Your PC Run Like New

While it’s not rocket science, making your computer lightning fast once again will take a little work from you. Sometimes, this is as easy as running your Windows System Tools program. You can find these programs by clicking “start,” “all programs,” “accessories,” and “system tools.” Here you will find several system optimizers to help you free up your disk space, defragment your PC, and detect and repair disk errors.

In addition to tools already installed on your PC, you can opt to download additional programs to optimize your computer’s performance. These optimizers can be purchased as a set with other software programs that can help you get the best out of your computer. Here are just a few of the extra optimization programs that you may want for your PC:

· Memory Optimizer – When you are using your computer, it takes several programs and application to handle everything that you are doing. Each of these programs uses memory. When memory is short, computer response time is slow. Memory Optimizer helps to make the allotment of memory to each program more efficient. This can help you eliminate slow PC execution time, Windows hang up or crashing, loss of data and unwanted shutdowns.

· Registry Deffrager and Optimizer – As mentioned before, a registry with holes results in slow response times as your PC searches for the data it needs. This program improves the system response time and saves memory by creating a smaller registry.

· Windows Optimizer – We all use our computers differently. Some use their computer as a media and entertainment centerpiece while others use their PC for data storage and business purposes. Windows Optimizer allows you to tweak program settings so that they will perform in line with your needs.

Granted, a slow computer is a nuisance and it may leave you wanting to go out and purchase a new model. But before you give up on your current model, make sure that you have optimized it first. You may be surprised by how much life is still in your PC.

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(un)intelligent design

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Proponents of intelligent design argue that life on Earth is just too complex to have arisen without the aid of some kind of designer. ID's critics point out that its main tenets are highly unscientific and untestable, and say that it is merely creationism in disguise.
No credible member of the scientific or academic communities has ever proven that intelligent design is anything more than a faith-based philosophy masquerading as science, grounded on the Genesis account of the creation of life.
What these "literalists" fail to understand is that the stories that make up the bible were written by people who believed the earth was flat and the world was the centre of the universe! In the absence of science they just believed what they were told by their elders. The present day adherents of intelligent design are making the same mistake.

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more on genius

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High IQ is not the unique foundation of genius, although geniuses usually do have high IQs. It is how geniuses use their brain, which is quite different from the way "normal" people use them that is critical. The reason we have so few geniuses is down to the failure of education.
How does our educational system inhibit student's ability to develop deep understanding and knowledge of the subjects they study? It's by transmitting subject matter linearly, to their "left-brain" only. By strongly discouraging creative thinking, there it stays, never transformed into the "right-brain" pictures that give it meaning to the students.

The drive to create "normal" people severely inhibits perception and comprehension by persecuting creativity and original, holistic, integrative thinking. The goal to enforce conformity to "norms" reinforces people's analytical, linear, left-brain processing - their ability to retain, organize and plan to these rules and regulations. Simultaneously, persecution of creative problem solving diminishes comprehension, insight and deep understanding. In effect, our educational system conditions students to be able to "do" and to not be able to "see". It literally "dumb students down" by so strongly influencing how they are allowed to use their brains.
http://www.meaning.ca/articles/basis_of_genius.htm

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Thinking aloud

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To be a genius is not an easy role to live with. Not that I am a genius, intelligent sure ,but genius? I don't really want the responsibility, you see to be a genius you have to live with being superior to all your family, friends, and colleagues, just imagine how onerous this would be.
As an intelligent being I am used to always being right, I know a lot of things, people ask me things and never question my answer. Why would they? I know more than they do otherwise they would not be asking me the question. They know I know more than they do, so have no reason to doubt my responses.
However, if I was a genius, I would have to know more than just the answers, I would, in fact, have to know why! Now I know a great deal but I don't always know why. So I am quite content to be highly intelligent, but genius, no I will leave that to the people who know why.

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