{"id":1607,"date":"2008-01-16T23:36:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T21:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/16\/optimize-linux-and-windows\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T23:44:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T21:44:42","slug":"optimize-linux-and-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/16\/optimize-linux-and-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimize Linux and Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You install your PC some time ago, it may be necessary to clean it up a little in order to keep or improve its raw speed. As a matter of fact, even if we are no longer in the old times of Windows 98 that were nearly forcing you to a re-install once or twice a year, it is not unusual to see that installing many new software packages (voluntarily or indirectly) leads to tons of data and roadblacks for your PC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softpedia.com\/get\/Tweak\/System-Tweak\/BootVis.shtml\"><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bootvis.png' alt='BootVis visual image of Windows boot sequence' align=\"right\"\/><\/a>Here are a few solutions to improve the situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimize Windows start with the help of Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softpedia.com\/get\/Tweak\/System-Tweak\/BootVis.shtml\">BootVis<\/a> (source: <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/featured-windows-download\/speed-up-your-startup-time-with-bootvis-334199.php\">LH<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Optimize Linux start (a previous article on Roumazeilles.net: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/30\/linux-boot-sequence-in-image\/\">Linux boot sequence in images<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Clean up a Linux installation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbeat.org\/fslint\/\">FSLint<\/a> which will find -for example- duplicate files (source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadsquad.com\/2007\/12\/26\/tidy-up-your-linux-installation-with-fslint\/\">DS<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccleaner.com\/\">CCleaner for Windows<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/linux\/make-your-linux-system-leaner-with-10-tweaks-333798.php\">Slim Down and Speed Up Linux<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/linux\/make-your-linux-system-leaner-with-10-tweaks-333798.php\">LH<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope it will help you in securing a faster PC whatever your prefered Operating System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You install your PC some time ago, it may be necessary to clean it up a little in order to keep or improve its raw speed. As a matter of fact, even if we are no longer in the old times of Windows 98 that were nearly forcing you to a re-install once or twice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,16],"tags":[196,193,2238,192,194,195,126],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computers","category-linux","category-vista","tag-boot","tag-gnulinux","tag-linux","tag-optimize","tag-start","tag-startup","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}