If you are like me, you hate to wait for 10 mins after you click on Internet Explorer to open it up. Then you should read rest of post … as here, I won’t review any software or so called “system optimizers” that can dramatically improve performance of system with just a single scan !! All I will tell you is about same old school tricks that I have been using since my first encounter with computers and you know, they still work perfectly !!!

Anyways, before I start babbling with ram ,processor, services and all other cryptic words … lets begin with basics. Just like any other operating system, in windows when we install something it is quite common that service for that program gets created … according to Wikipedia,

On Microsoft Windows operating systems, a Windows service is a long-running executable that performs specific functions and which is designed not to require user intervention. Windows services can be configured to start when the operating system is booted and run in the background as long as Windows is running, or they can be started manually when required. They are similar in concept to a Unix daemon

And another important thing is Processes … when we use any program, a process is created for that specific instance. Which is defined in Wikipedia as,

In computing, a process is an instance of a computer program that is being executed. It contains the program code and its current activity

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