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How to Speed Up Your Linux PC

One of the biggest draws of Linux as a powerful OS ecosystem is its speed out of the box, but it’s always beneficial to further speed up your Linux PC. Below are multiple elements that factor into your system’s speed capabilities and some great ways to speed things up. Thread Scheduling Initially, Linux used a simple scheduling algorithm to handle tasks in a circular fashion. Since its creation, Linux has consistently improved its thread scheduling, culminating in a highly advanced and scalable design called the Completely Fair Scheduler. CFS uses virtual run-time to decide which… Read more

Are These Programs Slowing Down Your Windows Startup?

One of the most frequent complaints from users of a Windows machine is the slowness of startup. It can get frustrating waiting for your computer to finally get to the desktop, and that wasted time limits productivity. When you turn on your computer, there is a myriad of programs that open immediately whether you know it or not. These programs start automatically to help the operating system load. If you had to open all of these programs manually, it would take way too long. When the computer tries to boot too many programs at one time, it creates a bottleneck and… Read more

4 Things You Need to Boot Windows 10 in 3 Seconds

Normally, Windows 10 takes a very long time to boot. On a traditional hard disk, it can take well above one minute until the desktop shows up. And even after that, it still loads some services in the background, which means it is still quite laggy until everything initializes properly. For this reason, Windows 8 (which was slow to boot as well) introduced Fast Startup. What Is Fast Startup? There is a lot going on when your computer boots up. Basically, the kernel gets loaded along with some drivers. Programs, libraries, and other types of data are then read from disk to memory and executed… Read more