WyzGuys Tech Talk

George Ou from ZDNet has published this excellent article.  i followed the directions and achieved a much improved start up and operational environment on my two year old Toshiba laptop.

The article links are below, and I have included a PDF file courtesy of TechRepublic that you can save for your own use.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=547&page=2

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