Chapter 2. Keeping Windows Happy
You know how, when you buy a brand new car, you hear that the vehicle’s big price tag depreciates greatly the minute you drive it off the lot? Unfortunately, you face something similar with Windows and your PC the instant you turn it on for the first time.
Here, the issue isn’t so much the PC’s dollar value as something called “overall system integrity,” or how well the PC runs. At the factory, it was assembled and configured to try to make the computer perform as well as possible when you first get it.
Yet the moment you start to work with that PC, both little and big things you do can seriously change how well Windows operates. Some of those things you can avoid altogether, while others, you can either fix or at ...
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