Improve PC Performance by Jettisoning the Junk

Our friends at Hard/OCP have an interesting addition to their system reviews in which they used WorldBench 5, PC World's benchmark suite, to demonstrate what a dramatic performance improvement can be attained by removing "bloatware" from a Dell XPS 400.

They said: "We came out with a total score of 72, which was very troubling."

"Surely the hardware we purchased from Dell should be able to do better than that!" the article went on to say. "Therefore, we did an experiment. We uninstalled any programs we didn?t feel were necessary to the operation of the computer, and we disabled all the services and pre-loaded programs at startup in MSConfig."

"Sure enough, after disabling the pre-installed software we got a total score of 88--much closer to other computers in this price range," they concluded.

Here's the full article.

Go here to learn more about WorldBench, PC World's industry standard benchmark suite.

Comments

I'm not surprised in the least. I've had to disable all that junk from 3 Compaq and 2 HP computers in the past 5 years and thereafter they all ran beautifully. People fail to realize that the RAM that comes preinstalled is usually not enough and you have to do this to improve performance. I don't understand why all these companies seem to think we need all this other stuff when we don't even use it.

Jay

January 03, 2006

11:05 PM PT

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