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                                                                                               Edited by Sherwin Coelho

                           14 pages o f e asy-to-follow                w orkshops a nd expert tipss a nd expert tips


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                           35 Pinpoint programs  40 Free up space o n
                           making your PC start slowly your tablet    43 Readers’ T ips     47 Make Office Better
                           38 Add a dvanced t ools  42 Use a P ayPal g roup to  44 Phone &  T ablet T ips  48 Secret Tips For...
                           to File E xplorer    collect money         46 Make Windows B etter  Unzipping files




         Pin p oin t programs m                                 aking


         y o ur PC start slo w l y




         What you n eed: BootRacer; All W  indows versions (XP  t o 1 0)
         Time required: 40 minutes

            ver t ime y ou may i nstall  you  d isable programs that slow
         Omany programs that          this process. The latest version
         automatically s tart up with your  shows y ou all t he programs that
         PC, t hereby increasing its overall  start with your PC and  h ow long
         boot t ime. Free p rogram    each one d elays your PC’s start up
         BootRacer m  easures h ow long  time, s o y ou can remove those
         your PC takes t o s tart up and  l ets  that are a d rag o n  y our b oot t ime.









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         STEP   BootRacer c omes as a ZIP file, so you’ll need a fi le-  STEP  BootRacer d oesn’t create a d esktop icon. T o d o t hat,
           1    compression program  t o i nstall it (we r ecommend  2  search for b ootracer o n  y our P C, right-click  t he search enu
                                                                 result, t hen
                PeaZip, www.peazip.org). T o d ownload BootRacer,
                                                                          c lick ‘Pin to Start’. N ow open your Start m
         go to www.snipca.com/26358 and  c lick the D ownload Now  and  d rag i ts icon to your desktop. F irst, y ou need to restart y our P C
         link  a t t he top  r ight. Open the d ownloaded zipped file, click to let B ootRacer r ecord  i ts boot t ime. Click  t he Boot Time Test
         the ‘ bootracer.msi’ setup  fi le 1 , t hen  c lick Y e s, Next, select  button 1 , t hen  c lick Y e s 2 . A fter your PC restarts, y ou’ll s ee a
         ‘I accept the l icense agreement’ 2 , c lick Next 3 again, then  pop-up displaying i ts boot t ime ( in seconds) and  a n  a nalysis
         Y e s t o i nstall the p rogram.                 (Good, A verage or Bad).


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