The World of Windows

There's a lot to like about Windows 7, not least its many improvements over Vista: the new OS is faster, less demanding on resources, has better designed security and contains many new productivity-boosting features. If you were an early Windows 7 adopter, though, you may already have noticed that one old problem still remains. The more you use your PC, adding and removing applications, the more junk builds up throughout your system, and the slower and more unstable it eventually becomes. You need to treat the problem, detoxing your PC on a regular basis to remove the leftovers – but how, exactly? Which areas of Windows 7 are most susceptible to this gradual degradation? Are there any tools or benchmarks you can use to reveal problem areas? How much can all this clutter slow you down, anyway, and what's the best way to remove it all and restore your system to its optimum performance? As we researched this article, one point was clear. Windows 7 is very different internally to W...

Fuente Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source  Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Custom Search If you liked this article, subscribe to the feed by clicking the image below to keep informed about new contents of the blog:

According to Microsoft, "Windows 7 improves security, reliability, and performance while helping to optimize PC management." Concepts like Kernel Patch Protection, Data Execution Prevention, Address Space Layout Randomization, and Mandatory Integrity Levels sound good, but the early propaganda about Vista hyped security too, and much of its promise failed to materialize. Will Windows 7 do better at living up to the hype? True, the goals for Windows 7 sound a little less pie-in-the-sky than Vista's concept of Three Magical Pillars of Trusted Computing, or whatever it was supposed to be. I scoped out security elements in both the beta and the Release Candidate. Now that I've had a chance to look at the final code, too, it's clear to me that Security in Windows 7 is better than in Vista—just not hugely so. Not-Quite Automatic Updates Installing the beta and RC editions went quickly because I performed a clean install on a test system. Upgrading my production s...