It's Thursday, so there's a new "LangaList Plus" column posted at WindowsSecrets.Com. This week, it covers:
Controlling (and Killing!) Unneeded Processes: Too much software running in the background can really bog you down. There are good ways and bad ways of preventing needless processes from running. Here are the best ways I know.
Motherboard battery woes: A weak or dead system battery can cause all kinds of problems ranging from system clocks that can't keep time to PCs that "forget" what kind of hard drives and other hardware they have. But the fix is cheap and easy.
OK to delete old install files? An answer to this reader question: "I have a laptop running XP Home that's struggling for space on the C: drive. There are over 100 '$NtUninstallKB...' folders in \Windows that range in size from 2 to 8 MB ... it all adds up! I believe these are MS updates - but are they needed? Also, I have found there is a folder called Windows\Installer that has hundreds of files totaling around 3GB. What are these, are they really needed, and if not, what's the best way to kill them? "
More on Vista driver trouble A source of Vista-compatible drivers that I'd never heard of before!
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