Windows Tools, Help & Guides

In this guest post, James Ricketts explores how to boost  PC performance. Learn more about James at the conclusion of this post.

Computer owners are always on the lookout for ways to boost their PC performance. Anything that will keep their computer running as efficiently as it did when it was brand new. If you stop for a moment and ponder the reasons why the performance of a new PC is so good, you will recall that a new PC is devoid of any unnecessary information and programs. Another reason for its efficiency is that the data residing in it is uncluttered.

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the next version of the Windows Server operating system from Microsoft. Building on the features and capabilities of the current Windows Server 2008 release version, Windows Server 2008 R2 allows you to create solutions that are easier to plan, deploy, and manage than previous versions of Windows Server.

You can download an evaluation here.

This software is for evaluation and testing purposes. Evaluating any version of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta software does not require product activation or entering a product key. Any edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta may be installed without activation and evaluated for an initial 30 days. If you need more time to evaluate Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta, the initial 30 day evaluation can be extended to August 1st (at which time the OS will become inoperable) by entering the product key below for your selected edition.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Product Keys for Evaluation

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Enterprise (7000.0.081212-1400_server_en-us-GB1SXFRE_EN_DVD.iso)

• TFGPQ-J9267-T3R9G-99P7B-HXG47

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Standard (7000.0.081212-1400_server_en-us-GB1SXFRE_EN_DVD.iso)

• 2T88R-MBH2C-M7V97-9HVDW-VXTGF

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Datacenter (7000.0.081212-1400_server_en-us-GB1SXFRE_EN_DVD.iso)

• GQJJW-4RPC9-VGW22-6VTKV-7MCC6

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta for Itanium Based Systems (7000.0.081212-1400_serverenterprise64_en-us-GB1SIAIFRE_EN_DVD.iso)

• CQ936-9K2T8-6GPRX-3JR9T-JF4CJ

• Windows Web Server 2008 R2 Beta (7000.0.081212-1400_serverweb_en-us-GB1WXFRE_EN_DVD.iso)

• GT8BY-FRKHB-7PB8W-GQ7YF-3DXJ

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Xpy customizes over a hundred Windows XP settings easily. Xpy doesn’t need to be installed and can really help optimize your PC.

Use Vista? Try Vispa

Features

Disable Automatic Windows Updates
Disable Windows Security Center
Disable Windows Defender
Disable Compressed Folders
Disable File Association Web service
Disable Net Crawling
Disable Error Reporting
Disable WGA Notifications
Disable Time Synchronization
Disable Scheduled Task Service
Disable Indexing Service

Your antivirus software might report xpy as Spyware or a Trojan. xpy is written and compiled using NSIS, false positives are unfortunately quite common among NSIS compiled programs. The NSIS development team is aware of this situation and constantly works with software companies to solve such issues.

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JDiskReport helps you find out the space taken by directories on your hard drive. You can also identify old and obsolete files that you may no longer need. There are many programs that analyze your hard drive, but this software does a really good job and I recommend it to you readers.

Download JDiskReport

This week I’m giving away lots of prizes; thank you to the respective software vendors.

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This week I’m giving away lots of prizes; thank you to the respective software vendors.

UPDATE: Winner announced here.

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