Whether you use your PC for office-related work-at-home or for freelance revenue-earning work, your PC can be a bottleneck to getting your work done. Your PC’s performance directly impacts on your efficiency and productivity that can spell your failure or success working at home. To say that you need to maintain your PC’s performance in top shape would be an understatement given your home computing needs to remain fully productive Optimizing Disk Performance A healthy disk figures much in providing your PC with the performance levels it was meant to have right from the start. Problems arise when the disk is not operating at its peak with fragmented files that still needs to be pieced together every time you access them or not enough disk space to write virtual memory that your PC needs to run smoothly. It is clear that you need to clean your hard disk of apps and files that you no longer need and then have it defragmented. Start-up programs are loaded into memory every time you boot up. If they are not frequently used, you’re wasting memory space that can otherwise be used by the applications you really use. Unfortunately, unless you’re a seasoned Windows XP professional, the registry isn’t a good place to tinker with. But it’s good to note that there are online utilities that can automate the cleaning process. If there’s any utility program worth paying for to boost PC performance, it’s a registry cleaner. GP ITC Sales are a leading supplier of Dell and HP Laptops such as the Dell Vostro and Precision. ITC also supply servers such as the Dell PowerEdge