Basic performance tuning for your PC

I am often asked, "How do I give my PC a tuneup?" The answer isn't really straight forward as you might expect. All you you need are some simple, free programs and do some house cleaning in the Windows startup environment.

Note: I am assuming that you have a basic knowledge of doing some tasks in Windows.

First, let's get some simple tools.

CCleaner is a free utility that removes temporary (aka junk) files from specific areas of your hard drive, some of which are hidden. To download click here and look on the upper right hand corner of the page. When you install CCleaner, be sure to uncheck the box that asks you if you want to install the Yahoo! toolbar (more on toolbars later).

Once installed, run the program and you should see the below image. Check the boxes as I have done:



Once you are finished, click the "Run Cleaner" button at the bottom right. Depending on how much temp files are on your hard drive will determine how long it will take to finish.

Note: In order to clear the temporary Internet cache files, you must have your browser closed.

Once complete, CCleaner will give a summary:



Next, we need to clean up the registry. The system registry is a sort of database that stores configuration information from file extensions to what programs load into memory after Windows loads. Some companies that make registry "boosters" claim that their software will fix your ailing machine, such as RegCure and UniBlue Registry Booster. However, these programs alter settings in the registry that ought not be messed with. CCleaner, on the other hand merely deletes unused entries.

Now, click the Registry icon in CCleaner. At the bottom left, click on the "Scan for issues" button. Depending on how many unused entries are in your registry will determine how long it takes to finish.

Once complete, you'll see something like the figure below:



Backing up the registry is your option and is not required. I don't do it, but may want to. If something goes wrong, you can reimport them back into the registry. I have yet to see anything bad happen, so you're probably safe not to. Another box will pop up prompting you to either fix one issue at a time (y-a-w-n), or Fix all. Fixing all will remove everything on the screen, which is what we want.

Keep pressing the "Scan for issues" button until it says "No issues found.

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Now that we're done cleaning the junk out. It's time to look at the startup environment.

Either hold down ALT + CTRL + Delete and let go, or locate an empty area on the taskbar, right click and select Task manager to bring up...you guessed it, the Task manager.



What we're looking for are the processes down at the lower left. So, let's talk a bit about processes.

Processes are what's going on in the background after Windows loads into memory. Some are required, some are not and the general idea is to get them as low as you can. If you look at the system tray in the lower right corner where the clock sits, look at the icons. Those are only some of what's loading that's not needed, with the exception of your antivirus program. Some of them reside in the startup folders, while others reside in the system registry.

Sidebar: There are two types of Windows operating systems, 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64). A 32-bit operating system can only address 3.25 gigabytes of RAM, a 64-bit Windows operating system can address 16 gigabytes.

Now, you may be tempted to open up the MSCONFIG utility, click on the startup tab and uncheck some boxes. This is a newbie way of doing things and will only cause your machine to start slower. Why? Because once you uncheck any of those boxes, the startup mode will change from normal to selective, which is what we don't want. Selective startup literally goes line by line, asking the operating system if it wants to load a process or not, depending on which items that were unchecked or not.

Et tu, Brute: Karl Rove still ain't gettin' it.

Prior to the Delaware primaries, Karl Rove told Sean Hannity that Christine O'donnell was bad for the GOP and couldn't be guaranteed to win in the general elections and Mike Castle was a shoe in. He further stated that her background was 'sketchy' and had a lot to answer for.

For example, Mr. Rove asks: Why did it take her 12 years to pay off a student loan? Why did the IRS come after her?

News flash, Karl! She is one of millions of Americans that struggle to pay off student loans and you blatantly failed to mention that the IRS admitted they made a mistake. Ergo, she's an average, everyday American that many others can identify with.

Let's not forget that Karl Rove has earned the moniker of "The Architect", but, part of that moniker was that he created the expansion of Medicare and Medicaid, which currently has a stranglehold on the entire country and is bankrupting our economy. He was also the "architect", along with Ted Kennedy, of the failed amnesty bill.

The problem with Mr. Rove is that he is part of the power complex that's currently in power now and it's being threatened with extinction. Needless to say that Mike Castle's voting record says it all and for Mr. Rove to work on his campaign and try to convince the 9/12 Project, as well as Christine O'donnell to drop out of the race and support Castle speaks volumes.

Sour grapes, maybe? I think so and he needs to get over it. His language about her victory is the very thing that pushed her to the finish line. Americans across the country are very angry at the elitist, power hungry politicians that are in there now.

But, he doesn't stop there.

After Christine O'donnell's stunning upset of Mike Castle in Delaware, Mr. Rove bemoans to Hannity:

"I'm for the Republican, but I got to tell you, we were looking at eight to nine seats in the Senate. We are now looking at seven to eight in my opinion. This is not a race we're going to be able to win."

He still ain't gettin' it. He's putting party over principle and that's exactly what Americans are sick and tired of. He further whines:

Hannity: "You may be right in the end, I don't know. We can look into our crystal ball and can say things. I would argue back to you gently that I don't think we can make progress in stopping the Obama agenda with rhino Republicans that, you know are not going to be there when the solid votes are needed."

Rove: "I agree. But we also can't make progress if we have candidates who got serious character problems, who cause ordinary voters who are not philosophically aligned with us to not vote for our candidates out of concern of what they said and what they do."

Character problems? Where was this acrimony when Scott Brown and Joe Miller won in their primaries? Why isn't anything being mentioned about Rangel and his 13 ethics charges, yet still won hands down in his district? Character problems, indeed.

Here's the problem. Karl Rove is a strategist and right now he's feeling the heat from millions of pissed off Americans and he isn't liking it. Americans are sick and tired of being lied to and politicians they elect are not listening to the will of the people. He is part of the Republican party that would rather seize control, conservative principles be damned and this is what Americans across the fruited plane are removing from Washington D.C.

Senator Jim DeMint said it eloquently: "I’d Rather Lose Fighting for the Right Cause"

As Julius Caesar was being murdered by members of the senate, he says to his closest confidant: "Et tu Brute?" What's it going to be, Mr. Rove? Are you going to stand behind Christine O'donnell or are you going to sink the knife into her?

The Southern Poverty Law Center: Better known as the Poverty Pimps

It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

–Charles A. Beard

The Southern Poverty Law Center (aka poverty pimps) is a group of left wing radicals created by Morris Dees in 1971. Their sole purpose is to demonize groups they deem as racist by concocting "hate crimes" for one reason or another. According to Ken Silverstein, even though SPLC doesn't receive government funds, they get their money through direct mailing by hyping hate crimes, yet do virtually nothing for the "victims". [FN173]

On their website, they claim: "The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society."

Really? According to Millard Fuller,

"Morris Dees and I, from the first day of our partnership, shared one overriding purpose: to make a pile of money. We were not particular about how we did it; we just wanted to be independently rich. During the eight years we worked together we never wavered in that resolve."

So, their sole purpose is to separate wealthy liberals from their money, yet, do nothing to help those that they claim to be representing. It's noteworthy to add that the American Institute of Philanthropy has repeatedly given SPLC an 'F' rating for nearly a decade.

In a Baltimore Sun article, they characterized the SPLC in a not so flattering way,

“Its business is fund raising, and its success at raking in the cash is based on its ability to sell gullible people on the idea that present-day America is awash in white racism and anti-Semitism, which it will fight tooth-and-nail as the public interest law firm it purports to be.”

In 1994 the Montgomery Advertiser won a journalism award for a series of damaging investigative articles, titled, A complex man: Opportunist or Crusader?, exposing the unethical fund raising practices of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In 1979, Maureen Bass Dees accused Morris of having a homosexual encounter during their marriage and having sexual relationships with his daughter-in-law and his underage step daughter. According to the file, the primary cause of the breakup was due to his mistress, Vicki Booker McGaha, whom he had a permanent relationship with starting in 1977.

Want to see how well Morris Dees has done for himself all these years, helping the down trodden? Visit his residence.

In 2007, the SPLC presented itself to the public as a non partisan watchdog and publicly labeled the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) as a 'hate group'. However, they deliberately withheld the fact that they partnered with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and not one single person in the media investigated it. With the aid of their media allies, the "Stop the Hate" campaign gained steam and eventually gave FAIR the venomous label as a hate group by the SPLC, which gives credence to the allegations that they became NCLR's propaganda arm.

According to SPLC's most recent IRS Form 990, the top ten earners are,

Morris Dees — Founder and Chief Trial Counsel — $348,420
Richard Cohen — President/CEO — $344,490
Joseph Levin — Director and General Counsel — $189,166
Rhonda Brownstein — Legal Director — $179,806
Jeff Blancett — Former COO — $159,301
Teenie Hutchinson — Chief Financial Officer — $155,414
Mark Potok — Intelligence Director — $143,099
Wendy Via — Development Director — $140,428
Mary Bauer — Director Immigrant Justice — $141,484
Jennifer Holladay –Strategic Affairs — $137,900

Not listed is Michael Toohey, the SPLC’s current COO, because he only earns a paltry five figure salary of $89,975.

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Rather than being an organization that helps the down trodden and mistreated against 'hate groups', the SPLC has done nothing more than exploit the gullible through direct mailing tactics and much like sex, hate sells. According to Dees' former partner, they weren't above unethical practices and "We were not particular about how we did it..."

As one example of blatantly misleading its donors, the SPLC conducted a mailing campaign in 1995 stating that the, "strain on our current operating budget is the greatest in our 25-year history." However, they failed to mention that they were, and still are, the wealthiest 'civil rights' group in America with a bucket of $60 million during that time.

Their tactic is to smear anyone or any group that has a different point of view as racist hate mongers and their latest target is the Tea Party movement, by attempting to link it with domestic terrorism and militia groups. According to the SPLC:

The Patriot movement — largely comprised of white supremacists — was animated in the 1990s by a shared view of the federal government as the enemy and a belief the Federal Emergency Management Agency secretly runs concentration camps.

“The ‘tea parties’ and similar groups that have sprung up in recent months cannot fairly be considered extremist groups, but they are shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism,” Mark Potok, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, wrote in a piece titled “Rage On The Right: The Year In Hate And Extremism” from the group’s Spring 2010 edition of its Intelligence Report.

Read the rest at the Daily Caller

So, in other words, people that practice their First Amendment rights in regards to smaller government are considered by the SPLC as 'domestic terrorists'? Yet, the mealy mouthed Potok hasn't cited one piece of credible evidence, but, shoots off at the mouth with endless innuendo.

Watch - Chris Christie schools a union teacher

Governor Chris Christie is known to tell it like it is and he doesn't pull punches here. The lightning starts to crack around 1:53, but, continues to give an economic and history lesson in nine minutes.

2 Abortionists Caught Storing Dozens of Unborn Babies in Freezer

From Gateway Pundit

Police raided the offices of two Maryland abortionists and found dozens of unborn babies in a freezer.

Maryland has suspended the licenses of two doctors and ordered another to stop practicing in the state. (WJZ)

The NC Register reported, via Free Republic:

Two abortionists in Maryland (Dr. Steven Brigham and Dr. Nicola Riley) were ordered to stop practicing abortions in Maryland after a woman was severely injured.

Subsequently, police raided the clinic searching for medical records and to their horror they discovered dozens of unborn babies stored in a freezer.

After being shocked and disgusted my mind raced back to an incident a few months ago.

This would be a strange and horrible story if it had never happened before but just a few months ago another abortionist, this one in Philadelphia, was discovered to be keeping aborted babies in jars.

The offices of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell were raided earlier this year after a woman was injured and they found the conditions of the clinic to be “deplorable and unsanitary.”

Authorities reported: “There was blood on the floor, and parts of aborted fetuses were displayed in jars.”

MLK Jr was a Republican, before he was a Democrat

Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally was supposed to transcend political parties and even politics itself. It did just that. Yet, the left wing media hate machine and apparatchik bloggers didn't see it that way; they saw it as an insult to Dr. Martin Luther King's historic speech and many seen it as "stealing" something they think is theirs by right.

To this day, Al Sharpton, who seems to think he's MLK Jr's torchbearer, still gets it wrong:



I wasn't born during MLK Jr's time. However, I can read and comprehend the English language.

Martin Luther King Jr wouldn't have agreed with any of Sharpton's comments. As a matter of fact, Martin Luther King Jr was a Republican before he was compelled to become a democrat. Spreading the wealth around is not a Republican tenet, as it is with democrats who believes in the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and socialism.

The Republican Party was created in 1854 as the anti slavery party, who's platform was freedom and civil rights for blacks. In 1957, Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, introduced the first Civil Rights legislation that was shot down by Lynden B. Johnson and then Senator John Kennedy, both democrats. It was attempted again in 1964, which was thwarted by Al Gore Sr and it's noteworthy to add that President Kennedy was opposed to MLK Jr's march in 1963, which was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. The 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed because the Republican Party pushed it through.

In March of 1968, KKK member and kleagle, Senator Robert Byrd referred to MLK Jr as a "trouble maker who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited." On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

• It was the Republican Party that added the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.


• It was the Republican Party that passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s


• It was the Republican Party that passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866


• It was the Republican Party that passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867


• It was the Republican Party that passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964


• It was the Republican Party that started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan

As for affirmative action, it was started by Richard Nixon to counter the harm and damage being caused to blacks when democrat President Woodrow Wilson, a racist, democrat progressive in 1912 removed ALL blacks out of federal government jobs.

During the presidential campaign in 1964, Barry Goldwater wanted to force the democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation. So, those in the left wing media need to be reminded that LBJ's State of the Union Address on January 4, 1965 talked of an enormous amount of federal action on many issues, but, only devoted 35 words to the civil rights movement.

Then towards the end of LBJ's term, he referred to MLK Jr. as a "nigger preacher" when he protested against the Vietnam War.

Remember Trent Lott's remarks about Strom Thurmond (R-SC)? Recall the outcry from democrats after he made them? Isn't it a bit hypocritical of democrats to forget that Thurmond never wore white sheets and a pointy hat, like Robert Byrd did?

Both political parties have been infiltrated by progressives. In their perverted world view, they need to keep giving handouts to minorities to maintain control; all one has to do is count the numerous federal programs that give entitlements to blacks and other minorities, which keeps them coming back for more much like a drug addict looking for their next fix.

Democrats have been running the inner cities for the better part of 35 years. Since LBJ's "War on poverty", $7 trillion has been spent with little, if any measurable impact, yet they continue to blame Republicans for the problems. Since 2006, democrats have had control of both houses of Congress, yet whine like pouting children when they claim that Republicans are keeping more entitlement or tax busting bills from being passed. Here's a news flash:

Democrats don't need Republican support, the democrats have majorities in both houses and can pass their bills without their support.

Why did Martin Luther King Jr. flip sides?

Mrs. Coretta Scott King urged Nixon, who voted for the Civil Rights Act, to help her husband when he was facing jail time. Nixon didn't respond, but Kennedy did and subsequently brought it to the attention of the nation.

Coretta Scott King was pregnant at the time and was very grateful for Kennedy's intervention, urging black voters to cast previously Republican votes for Senator Kennedy even though Kennedy had voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law.

So, it shouldn't come as a shock that many blacks, particularly Martin Luther King Jr. were Republicans during the sixties.