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  • Stoke
    Stoke Posts: 3,182 Forumite
    Snake oil. Avoid.
  • csgohan4
    csgohan4 Posts: 10,600 Forumite
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    Sounds like OP needs a good anti virus, who knows what else they have been downloading.
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  • esuhl
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    Ben84 wrote: »
    Ironically, those turbo buttons actually reduced the clock speed to something comparable to an 8088, so that really old software that used the clock speed for timing things would still run ok. I have no idea how or why they ended up writing 'turbo' on a button that does that?

    It's just a matter of perspective, innit? Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Is the turbo button there so you can push it in to speed up your PC, or is it there so you can release it to slow it down?

    Presumably, it's psychologically easier to sell a PC with an "extra fast" setting than it is to sell one that will run "extra slow".
  • System
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    You had to push it in to slow it down. The default 'off' position was full speed.
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  • esuhl
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    !!!!!! wrote: »
    You had to push it in to slow it down. The default 'off' position was full speed.

    Not on the PCs I used... :-/
  • Geodark
    Geodark Posts: 1,049 Forumite
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    If there was software out there that could make a PC run faster - don't you think that the manufacturers would already be bundling it with there stuff to make it more saleable? as others have said... ssssssssnake oil ;)
  • enfield_freddy
    enfield_freddy Posts: 6,147 Forumite
    Geodark wrote: »
    If there was software out there that could make a PC run faster - don't you think that the manufacturers would already be bundling it with there stuff to make it more saleable? as others have said... ssssssssnake oil ;)




    yes , several PC manufacturers now include Linux
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