My boss came to me yesterday with her notebook and said “My notebook has been really slow for the last week or so. Can you please fix it?”

Of course I can! I started by turning on her notebook and noticed that it started up very slowly. Then, after logging in, I noticed that there was constant hard drive activity, even when the notebook was left idle for 30 minutes.

I ran msconfig and noticed that there were several stupid and unnecessary “services” configured to startup automatically at boot time. For example: …Continue reading » Norton GoBack…To the Stone Age

Don’t you hate it when you install a security patch with Windows Automatic Updates and afterward Windows keeps nagging you to restart? Here’s what the nag dialog box says:

Updating your computer is almost complete. You must restart your computer for the updates to take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now?

…Continue reading » Windows Automatic Updates – Stop Nagging Me, Biatch!