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10 Windows speed tips that DON'T work.
More......Tweaks that do nothing, or could even slow your PC down.
Many speedup tools include the "unload DLLs" tweak - but it hasn't done anything useful for years
If your PC seems to have slowed down recently, then there's plenty of help to be found online.
A few minutes at Google will turn up hundreds of speed-up guides and tweaking tools, each promising that they can revitalise your system.
And that would be fine, if it wasn't for the fact that many of their tweaks are obsolete, some are urban myths and have never worked, and a few will even cut your performance.
Identifying the dubious tips can be difficult, though, so we've got you off to a head start by listing our top 10.
Despite some of them not doing anything since Windows 98, and others being utterly useless on all versions of Windows, most have regularly appeared in speed-up guides and tools across the web. But, as you'll see, they're all best avoided, so you can focus your attention on the speed-up tweaks that actually deliver.
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