Little Known Ways to Speed Up Windows
February 20th, 2007 · by David Bradley
An interesting article on thespypc.com recently listed the ten worst offenders when it comes to software that slows Micro$oft Windows to a crawl.
Among the culprits were Adobe Acrobat Reader, M$ Internet Explorer, Norton Antivirus, Micro$oft Office 2003, and several other commonly used pieces of so-called bloatware.
Thankfully there are various alternatives to these programs that do a similar if not better job and thanks to the Digg tech forum users ninjasquirrel and zirtbow, we can list a few of them here:
Software: Norton Antivirus - “Junk and a resource hog.”
Alternate: AVG Free - http://free.grisoft.com/
Software: Adobe Acrobat Reader - “Slow again”
Alternate: Foxit Reader (free) - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
Software: Windows Media Player - “Actually not TOOO bad”
Alternate: VLC (free) - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Software: Internet Explorer - “Yeah”
Alternate: Firefox (free) - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ (like I really needed to link this one)
Software: AIM 6.0, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Chat
Alternate: Trillian - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
Antispyware:
-Spybot: Search and Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/
IM software:
-Gaim: http://gaim.sourceforge.net
Media:
-Media Player Classic: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
-Foobar2000: http://www.foobar2000.org
-ffdshow: (Open source video codecs for Windows): http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/codecs_and_filters/ffdshow.cfm
Firewall:
-Sygate Personal Firewall http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160
So get rid of the bloatware and install these much crisper programs instead and just watch Windows fly.

















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