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Optimise System Resources for Peak Performance

System resources were the bane of PC users lives in the early days of Windows. If you had a Windows Me, 98 or 95 machine, you probably remember the IRQ conflicts and DMA errors that stopped hardware devices from working, and Windows inability to address RAM that meant you were stuck with only a few megabytes, slowing all of your applications down. Things have improved with recent Windows versions, meaning that most users think they can just forget about system resources, and their PC will work at its optimal performance. Unfortunately, that is not the case; system resources still matter, which is why you have to take control to find application bottlenecks and resolve IRQ problems. Well show you how in this article.

Category: Optimisation
Issue: 2010 Issue 8 November/December
Operating Systems: XP, Vista
Article Reference: O8