Microsoft® Windows 7 Unleashed

Chapter 6. Tuning Windows 7’s Performance

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• Monitoring Performance

• Optimizing Startup

• Optimizing Applications

• Optimizing the Hard Disk

• Optimizing Virtual Memory

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	Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
	--Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

We often wonder why our workaday computer chores seem to take just as long as they ever did, despite the fact that hardware is generally more reliable and more powerful than ever. The answer to this apparent riddle comes in the form of McFedries’ law of computing codependence: The increase in software system requirements is directly proportional ...