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Slow isn't the word!
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Well, I wonder if I dare say it but I have shot through sites since last posting. I cannot imagine what has happened. I think I'll do the BBC test again.
it is still 2.5. Thanks for being there to help/supportiveThis is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
May I recommend the Tune-up software, I use it & have done for a few years now - does all the basic maintenance such as defrag, monitoring memory etc - there is a few 30 day trial so even if you only use it this once to help speed up the PC it cant hurt - or you may like it enough to pay after the trial - I was lucky my free trial stopped after 14 days not 30 so I emailed to complain - they said they had had a few people with the same problem so gave me a further 30days trial & then offered me the upgrade at 1/2 price!
here the link & the free trial is at the bottom (ps I dont work for them but when I find something good that works I like to share lol)
http://www.tuneup-software.co.uk/products/tuneup-utilities/I THINK is a whole sentence, not a replacement for I KnowSupermarket Rebel No 19:T0 -
I tend to shy away from software that claims to speed up your PC. Yes it may boost your performence at the time, but you have to ask yourself how it does this. Sometimes it shuts of services that are important. I ran such software about 6 months ago. At first all seemed fine. Then the next day, I tried Media Center (part of Vista) and it wouldn't work. Eventualy I found I had to turn of a disk defrag that was running for it to work. Then my printer failed. Turns out the 'Printer spool service' had been shut off. So I restarted that.
Most recently was 1 month ago when I finally had broadband installed. All the Internet protocol services had been shut of. It took me 4 hours to fix.
This is after I supposedly undid all changes (thats what the option said) and uninstalled the software.0 -
paddytehpyro wrote: »Cookies store things like pictures on your computer so if you visit a site regularly then it doesnt have to download the image again and again taking up bandwith. So if you clear them your browsing may slow down for a few days as the cookies download from each site you visit.
Sorry, that's not what cookies do at all.
Your cache will store the images etc, but cookies are markers left by websites to identify you, and so recognise you in future to, for example, save you from having to log in again. Nothing whatsoever to do with making pages load faster.
They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it0 -
Sorry I got confused, of course cookies aren't pictures they are txt files.:doh:0
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