Top 5 Freeware Registry Cleaners That Improve PC Performance

Like disk defragmentation, registry cleaning has fallen by the wayside. Back in the 90s and early 2000s, the Windows Registry used to be a performance bottleneck. Hard drives and CPUs were slow, the registry itself was poorly optimized, and that made systems slow to a crawl over time. Nowadays, hardware is so fast that it’s
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What’s the Best Chromebook for Performance in 2017?

Chromebooks, long seen as “casual use only” laptops, never emphasized performance. But as Chrome apps continue to mature and impress, people are starting to use Chromebooks in a professional capacity — myself included — and for that, performance does matter. So what’s the best Chromebook for performance? Of the things to consider before buying a
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How to Improve Adobe Lightroom’s Speed and Performance

If you use Adobe Lightroom a lot, you’ll know how the application uses a lot of your computer’s resources. The larger your catalog, and the more edits you’ve made, the slower Lightroom becomes. For those without a beast of a machine, a lagging Lightroom will at some point become a frustrating bottleneck in your workflow.
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How to Move Windows from HDD to SSD to Improve Performance

A Solid State Drive upgrade really improves performance. An SSD boosts snappiness, load times, and reduces power consumption (how an SSD works). The downside: smaller storage capacity. Even so, the trade-off more than compensates for the reduced capacity. But how can you squeeze a large Windows installation onto a tiny SSD? It’s easy. Windows users can migrate from an
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