It can be hard to get your head around all the tweaks you can make to your computer. Gamers like to look for ways to get more performance out of their rigs, often buying up some piece of hardware in the hopes of reaching game nirvana. A less sexy way of getting a faster machine may be a simple software tweak. There are loads of apps available for free download that promise to clean out the extra flack. There are also lots of sites crammed with suggestions (and we mean crammed). But this is the first page we've seen in a long time, that lays out some simple steps you can take. Among the suggestions are shutting down services that run in the background (with a short list of safe possibilities), simple utilities and specific Windows updates. There's nothing revolutionary here, just plain common sense.
