On any given day, reader Stephen works with several different files in several different programs. His hassle is having to restart these programs and reload these documents every time he boots his PC: ...

Want a good way to slow down your boot times? Have all your programs load at once. Even though you may think you have clean startup, there are still a few Windows programs that insist on starting up, ...

After reading my article on killing unwanted processes, Joe Balbona asked how he could keep those processes from loading in the first place. There’s no direct correlation between the programs that ...

Many programs that you install are automatically run when you start your computer and load Windows. For the majority of cases, this type of behavior is fine. Unfortunately, there are programs that are ...

Linux only: Open-source app Preload loads portions of your most commonly used applications into memory — resulting in faster load times when you start these applications. If you're constantly using ...

We’d guess that you don’t have a TRS-80 Model 100 computer sitting around. But we’ve heard that the decades-old hardware is built like a tank so if you search around you can probably get your hands on ...

You would probably assume that the faster your storage, the faster your PC will feel, and to a degree, that's certainly true. If you have an HDD in your PC and ...

The magic of "loading" a program. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on Google The loading screen—it’s ...