A nod to weak headlines: Can you believe March is almost half over?

Will an old PC with an almost as old installation of Windows 10 perform noticeably better if you double the memory and clean up the registry?

The answer is yes, it will.

I did not want to spend a lot of time getting the Core2Duo useful again.

The computer seemed to be choking on the measly 4GB of installed memory. When I upgraded to 8GB, it still was not any better.

I ran a Windows Defender full scan thinking there could be something nefarious on the computer.

It turns out it was a false alarm as Defender did not detect any threats. However, I did not feel the need to run any further malware or virus detection software.

Further hardware upgrades were out of the question as I did not want to spend more money on a new CPU, logic board, or graphics card when the computer itself was not worth very much as it was.

Recalling I had never messed with the computer’s registry beyond occasional, cursory glances, I decided to locate a registry cleaner and see if that would help.

The short answer is it did. If you click on the “Contact us” link at the top of the home page and inquire, I will tell you what registry cleaner I used. Alternatively, you can ask me in the blogpost’s comments section.

Daylight Savings

It’s time to spring ahead and lose an hour of sleep.

Why can’t we pick a time zone and stick to it?

It’s probably way more complicated than that. However, it seems very weird we’re still doing this at all.

Spring ahead silliness is only equaled by fall back during autumn ridiculousness.

Anyway, this is where Daylight Savings comes to an abrupt end in this post.

What else

It appears you can’t renew your passport online.

You can do some things online; you can’t complete the renewal process.

It must be why we can’t vote online.

Since it’s 2022, I’m expecting technology that secures online voting, passport renewal, and even driver’s license online renewal.

Indeed, we should have the ability to do all three in these modern times we live in, without sacrificing our identities.

Is it just me or do you feel disgusted with sports team owners and players (no matter the sport) when they squabble over who should be getting a few extra million dollars?

Some people don’t make a million dollars in their lifetimes.

Professional athletes make that much ten times over in one year.

If not disgusting, it’s sickening to consider all of it.

I’ve got all of my computers to click on all cylinders.

It’s a good feeling when things are running well.

You really can get so much more done when you don’t have to troubleshoot performance issues.

In order of best long-term performance operating systems without any slowdowns, there’s macOS at number one, followed by any variant of Linux you like, and three, Windows 10/11.

I have not had an opportunity to torture test Windows 11, but all signs point to it being better than Windows 10 performance-wise. Hopefully, it can maintain that performance over the long haul.

Random thoughts come to mind.

They do, that is, until the end of the article.

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