Ask and Answer Questions About Keeping Your Computer Running Smoothly [Help Yourself]

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Maintaining a computer that runs "like-new" is an art form in and of itself. When you press the "power button" for the first time, you are fighting a steep, uphill battle to keep your computer running as well as the day you purchased it, and if you do not regularly schedule some "spring cleaning" for your machine, then you will begin to subtly see a decrease in performance. This decrease in performance may gradually begin with an increased boot-time of a second or two, but eventually it will become so bad that you will be desperate to try anything to increase your computer's performance.

Let's not get to that point, shall we? Instead, let's talk about the different methods, programs, and the like that you use to keep your computer running at peak performance. Ask and answer questions about keeping your computer running smoothly in the comments.

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