You can simply speed up firefox just like firefox with a fresh new profile by deleting the entire history it has remembered till date for you and changing the history preferences further. Follow the procedure given below.

Before me telling you about the deleting history here is how you can backup you history with this free firefox history backup tool

Deleting All History and Other Details Remembered

1. Open Firefox

2. Press Ctrl+Shift+Del key to delete – make sure you select everything under the time range for the history.

Note: Don’t worry this will not delete your remembered username and password but make sure to uncheck the thing you want not to clean up as the action cannot be undone.

3. Click clear now and instantly you will feel the fast firefox speed after doing this.

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Isn’t it annoying to be surfing the web and all of a sudden, your computer drags to a crawl and you sit impatiently waiting for a page to load or a download to start? There are several common causes of the slowing down effect on your PC. I will discuss the following three things you can do to speed things up a little bit

• First, download a recommended registry cleaner( best all in one)
• Clean and defrag the hard drive
• Optimize Memory
• Eliminate unnecessary programs from Loading into memory

Clean and Defrag the Hard Drive

A computers hard drive is the primary area on your computer used to store the operating system, applications and all the files you create. The hard drive is divided up into areas called sectors. Each sector can hold a certain amount of data. Each sector is further broken up into address spaces. Each address is unique so the operating system can find the data stored on the hard drive. Windows uses a master file table to store the address locations of every file on the hard drive.

Please notice that I said locations. Most files need more than one address location to store the whole thing. Windows will write each piece of the file in locations next to each other (called contiguous space) if possible. If that is not possible, the operating system finds an empty location and writes the data there. As a result, over time, as you edit different files the pieces of a file can be located all over the hard drive.

For example, this disjoint storage is like you putting your shoes in the garage, your pants in the kitchen, your socks in the bedroom, you shirt in the bathroom and you coat in the attic. Obviously if you did that, if would take a lot longer to get dressed in the morning. The same thing happens with files. When they are spread all over the place, it takes longer for windows to find the individual pieces and load them into memory.

This is why you need to both clean up and defrag your hard drive. The clean up process deletes temporary files, file fragments (pieces left over after being deleted), orphans (data whose owner cant be determined) and data marked for deletion.

Defragging your hard drive is the process of moving all of the pieces of a file into contiguous space so it can be retrieved faster. The operating system will move data around until it gets all the correct pieces together. To defrag:

• Turn the screen save off by right clicking anywhere on the desktop
• Select Properties then click on the Screen Saver tab and select None.
• Next, select My Computer then right click on the hard drive Select Properties then click on Tools.
• Select Check Now as shown below to let windows check the hard drive for errors and fix them if necessary. This could take a while so you might want go do something else.

• When that is finished, select Defragment Now.

This can take a really long time depending on the size of the hard disk. You might as well go do something else because you CANNOT use the computer while it is defragging.

WARNING: DO NOT TURN THE MACHINE OFF UNTIL DEFRAGGING IS COMPLETE OR IT MAY DAMAGE THE HARD DRIVE

Optimize Memory

There is an old saying in the computer field. You can never have too much memory. When I say memory I am talking about random access memory or RAM. RAM is the temporary storage area the operating system uses to store data that is being used currently and to load itself in so all of the commands are immediately available for use.

Otherwise, you would have to wait for the data to be retrieved from the hard drive and then be loaded into memory before you could use it. It would be similar to when you are waiting for a web page to download although not as long a wait.

When the system runs out of physical RAM it uses the hard drive as Virtual Memory and does have to retrieve and load data every time you need it. Virtual memory is also called a swap file. Optimizing reduces the need to swap data into and out of the swap file. You want to put as much memory as you can afford or the machine can hold to significantly speed up your machine.

Eliminate Unnecessary Programs from Loading into Memory

When your computer boots up, it loads all kinds of applications into memory. Most of these programs are called terminate and stay resident programs or TSRs. Closing these programs will free up memory and speed up your computer. In fact, it is even better if you don’t load the ones you really dont need.

To prevent TSRs from loading go to:

• Start -> Run and type msconfig into the dialog box
• The System Configuration Utility will open.
• Select the Startup Tab as shown below.

• Uncheck any that you don’t use very often.
• Click OK to exit.
• Then reboot the computer.

If you dont know what a file or what a service does, dont uncheck it.

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Increase Slow PC Performance

What version of Windows is running on your computer?

Slow PC performance is often attributable to running newer applications on an older version of Windows. Because computers are getting faster and faster, and are becoming greater and greater resource hogs, they require more memory, disk space, etc. Likewise, the newer the application, the greater chance that it expects to have access to these resources.

Let’s determine what version of Windows you have on your computer as follows:

1. Click the START button located on the toolbar at the bottom left of your window
2. Right click on “My Computer” or “Computer” and choose “Properties”
3. You will be presented with a window that indicates which version of “Microsoft Windows” you have. You’ll most likely see one of the following (listed from newest to oldest):
4. • Windows Vista (newest)
   • Microsoft Windows XP
   • Microsoft Windows 2000
   • Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition
   • Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
   • Microsoft Windows 98
   • Microsoft Windows 95 (oldest)

Recommendation: If you’re running a version of Windows older than Windows XP or Windows Vista, your machine is most likely quite old. This means that most new software will require more memory than is physically available to Windows, so there will be a lot of swapping to disk, which can dramatically slow down the machine. In this case, considering purchasing a new computer or upgrading your existing one.

How much physical memory does your computer have?

It’s important to understand how much physical memory your computer has, as this will be useful in determining whether any newer applications you have installed might be having trouble running.

To determine the amount of physical memory, do the following:

1. Hold down and press to bring up the Windows operation menu.
2. Select “Task Manager” or “Start Task Manager”.

The windows task manager provides information regarding currently running applications and services and system performance.

By switching to the “Performance” tab, you will see a section called Physical Memory. Windows Vista provides the total number of megabytes of physical memory. In Windows XP, the number is provided in kilobytes, so divide the number indicated by 1024. Take note of this value.

Recommendation: If the number of megabytes indicated is less than 512, chances are you may have problems running the majority of new Windows applications available. These applications will require more memory than Windows has access to, resulting in a great deal of disk swapping.

How much free memory is available to applications?

Windows task manager can also provide you with information regarding the amount of free memory available to applications. This can be determined by doing one of the following depending on your operating system:

• Windows Vista users can click on the [Resource monitor...] button on the performance tab. This will display the resource monitor window which contains an item called Memory that shows the percentage of physical memory available to applications. From this you can determine the number of megabytes of free memory, based on the total amount of physical memory available to the operating system.
• In Windows XP, the performance tab of Task Manager includes an Available item under physical memory that indicates the amount of free memory for applications in kilobytes; so it is necessary to divide this number by 1024 to determine the number of megabytes.

Recommendation: If the amount of physical memory available for applications is less than 15% and you have no applications open at the present time, chances are you’ll most likely need to go back to your computer retailer and ask them to upgrade the memory on your machine. Most computers available today shipped with a minimum of 2 GB of RAM or 2048 MB of RAM

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Although a PC used for writing doesn’t need to be a high-performance computer, its performance can be improved by a good partitioning scheme. The biggest boost comes from my Paging partition on drive H, which is found on my second physical disk. I use this partition to boost performance in the following ways:

Move the paging file there. A well-known method for improving performance on a Windows-based computer is to move the paging file (pagefile.sys) from its usual location on drive C to its own separate partition on a separate physical drive.

Keep the Paging partition small (4 GB). By default the initial size of your paging file is 1.5 × RAM and its maximum size is 3 × RAM. So if your computer has 1 GB of RAM, which is pretty good for a desktop productivity computer, then setting your Paging partition to 4 GB gives you more than enough room for your paging file without wasting disk space that could be used for other purposes like storing data.

Format it using the FAT32 file system. Although the version of NTFS in Windows XP has features that make it perform better than earlier versions of NTFS, you can still eek out some performance gains for small volumes by formatting them as FAT32 instead of NTFS. I’m not overly concerned about the lack of security from not having pagefile.sys protected by NTFS permissions since it’s an unreadable binary file. If someone hacked into my system, they wouldn’t need to bother with the paging file anyway.

Replace old 5400 rpm drives with newer 7200 or 10000 rpm drives. If you have the budget, you can speed performance of disk activity by installing one of these faster drives.
If you have IDE drives, you can also boost file system performance by setting both physical disks as masters on separate channels. That way data can flow freely and simultaneously between both disks and the system bus. This setup allows Windows to access and load system files while simultaneously paging to disk. The end result—increased performance. Of course, Paging isn’t the only partition I have on my second disk. But since I only access the Archive and Other partitions only a few times per day, the disk is pretty much dedicated to paging activity. But overall the biggest performance gain is usually achieved by moving your paging file to a partition on a separate drive as described above, especially on a system that has limited physical memory. Buying more RAM is of course another way to boost performance.

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5 ways to speed up your PC

By following a few simple guidelines, you can maintain your computer and keep it running smoothly. This article discusses how to use the tools available in Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) and Windows Vista to more efficiently maintain your computer and safeguard your privacy when you’re online.

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