Top 10 Windows Tips of All Time

Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:24PM EDT

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Hey, it's Windows tip Friday! And TechWeb brings you 10 big tips to help you improve performance, free up disk space, support dual displays, and more.

Among the tips in this top ten list:

  • How to halt background services you don't need
  • How to remove detritus installed by other programs (tip #8)
  • Optimize your hard drive automatically
  • Restore data that you thought you'd lost

Best of all, all of these tips are free (or, at worst, use demo versions of some applications). Give them a spin today and I guarantee you'll find at least one that you can use.

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