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101 Ways to Hack your PC
By Logan Booker, Craig Simms
Feb 15, 2007 | 8 Comments
Tags: 101 | Hack | your | PC | tweak

Optimise, damn it! Atomic's definitive guide of the most ultimate tweaks, hints and performance tips.

You know how you’re told to format and reinstall Windows every couple of months because that’s the thing to do? That’s a tweak, of sorts. True, it’s probably the most drastic tweak you can do, but it gets the job done. Everything runs better, those annoying pop-ups go away, and it clears all traces of porn from the ever-wary girlfriend.

The purpose of this guide is to take our combined Atomic knowledge on tweaking PCs, be it for extra performance, cleaner running, automation, scripting – whatever – and provide them all, to you, in a nice, compact format so you can start optimising your computer, right now. Each one of these tips is distinctly Atomic, which means they’re the best. Plus, we’ve polished them to a fine shine... but not so fine a shine that they’ll blind you. Except with their brilliance, which is blinding.

Disclaimer: It's not our fault if you muck something up and explode your PC. We will not buy you a new one, we will not pay your hospital bills, we may send flowers to your funeral, we will certainly comfort your wife/girlfriend after your demise.

 
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This article appeared in the February, 2007 issue of Atomic.

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Sher Khan
Sep 3, 2009 1:53 PM
"Disclaimer: It's not our fault if you muck something up and explode your PC. We will not buy you a new one, we will not pay your hospital bills, we may send flowers to your funeral, we will certainly comfort your wife/girlfriend after your demise."

I don't know? My wife's pretty ugly!!!
Sher Khan
Sep 3, 2009 1:56 PM
Then again, I'm not much of a looker me-self, Me wife might do me in just to take you up on your claim!
somemadcaaant
Sep 4, 2009 4:50 PM
Sher Khan: haha I’d say she laced your drink already. Tell her the Atomicons will be over in 10…
fliptopia
Sep 7, 2009 11:19 PM
so your wife's ugly eh... we'll just go for your girlsfriend then ;)
N3M3SiS
Sep 8, 2009 12:45 PM
Ancient article comments/girlfriend stealing for teh win!
somemadcaaant
Sep 8, 2009 3:08 PM
lol Simply had to be brought up out of the wood work for it's Atomichronological relevance and wit.
osama_bin_athlon
Sep 12, 2009 3:51 PM
cleaning a PC with a vacuum cleaner is a BIG no-no - the vacuum cleaner is one of the best static-electricity generators available! a wrist strap, or hanging on to the chassis won't save you.....your PC will develop some insidious fault, that of course only happens intermittently......
Antraman
Sep 12, 2009 5:30 PM
Article locked...don't necro old articles.
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