What software subscription have you cancelled and not missed?

[ElPresidente]

Something I keep seeing asked and never getting a decent answer.

Real world performance is what matters, not benchmark numbers.

Any thoughts welcome

[QubitZero13]

Yeah that is the sensible route. The amount of time people spend on complicated fixes when the answer is usually a startup item is remarkable.

Should sort it if the basics are fine

[QueueDay]

Yeah that is the sensible route. The amount of time people spend on complicated fixes when the answer is usually a startup item is remarkabl

Worked for me too. Good to know about.

An SSD upgrade is still the single biggest performance gain on most older machines

[HeartbreakKidStinger64]

Yeah that is the sensible route. The amount of time people spend on complicated fixes when the answer is usually a startup item is remarkabl

Yeah can't really argue with that. The price matters more than it used to, I am much more selective about what I buy full price.

Definitely worth picking up.

[StringTheory83]

I am not having that. Ask me again in six weeks

[Phil80]

Something I keep seeing asked and never getting a decent answer. Real world performance is what matters, not benchmark numbers. Any thoug

I love the way you put that. It is the kind of thing that rewards sitting with it rather than reacting immediately.

There is a lot more to say about this.

The browser is often the biggest resource hog on most machines

[Ann]

Basically my experience exactly. When I ran into something similar the biggest improvement came from stripping things back and checking the obvious basics first.

That is how I would approach it anyway.

Software bloat is half the problem and it gets worse with every update