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Support for Windows 7 is nearing the end
After 10 years, support for Windows 7 is coming to an end on 14 January 2020. We know change can be difficult, so we are here to help you with recommendations for what to do next and to answer questions about end of support. We can upgrade your existing Windows 7 System to Windows 10 and also if you want things speeded up, clone your drive to a new Solid State Disk drive at the same time, just contact us and we can discuss your option...s.
It has come to our attention that there are Individuals offering Windows 10 PRO installations on Systems at ridiculously cheap prices, be warned these Installations will be using Pirated Software and most probably a Corporate Licence which will be detected by Microsoft and they will disable the Licence so you will end up with an unusable system. If you do purchase a new Operating System it will come with a Certificate of Authenticity , make sure any Software you purchase has this. If in doubt contact us or goto this link at Microsoft https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/howtotell
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One of the most common questions we get asked here at Planet PC is, how can I make my laptop or desktop PC faster? Unfortunately there is no straight answer as it depends on many factors. These involve the hardware ie the CPU (Central Processing Unit) the RAM (random access memory) in some cases the Graphics Card and not as often but today can make a significant difference the Hard Drive. The software that you are using can also play a significant role in how fast your system... runs, over time we tend to download and install lots of different games and utilities, these can stay running in the background using up your system resources and causing the system to run slow. How we approach this is down to whether you have a laptop or a desktop PC, if it is a laptop then realistically there is not a lot you can do to enhance the hardware, although saying this there has been significant progress in Hard Drive technology lately but I will explain this later. The laptop in most case will benefit from extra memory and also having the software tuned this will necessitate a full service on the laptop and by removing unwanted processes and cleaning the software up can certainly increase the speed. If you have a desktop then these are much easier to enhance, either by replacing the CPU, installing more memory or changing the Graphics card can improve the speed of the system considerably, they can also like the laptop certainly benefit from a service. Today the advent of the SSD Hard Drive (Solid State) is one of the most promising methods of speeding up the system, these devices directly replace the original Hard Drive in the system and as they don’t have any moving parts will turbo charge your Laptop or Desktop. Here at Planet PC we specialise in fitting and cloning your original drive over to a SSD. Come in and talk to us about the benefits a service and SSD installation can do for your system.
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Why’s my System sooooo slow?
One of the most common questions we get asked here at Planet PC is, how can I make my laptop or desktop PC faster? Unfortunately there is no straight answer as it depends on many factors. These involve the hardware ie the CPU (Central Processing Unit) the RAM (random access memory) in some cases the Graphics Card and not as often but today can make a significant difference the Hard Drive. The software that you are using can also play a significant... role in how fast your system runs, over time we tend to download and install lots of different games and utilities, these can stay running in the background using up your system resources and causing the system to run slow. How we approach this is down to whether you have a laptop or a desktop PC, if it is a laptop then realistically there is not a lot you can do to enhance the hardware, although saying this there has been significant progress in Hard Drive technology lately but I will explain this later. The laptop in most case will benefit from extra memory and also having the software tuned this will necessitate a full service on the laptop and by removing unwanted processes and cleaning the software up can certainly increase the speed. If you have a desktop then these are much easier to enhance, either by replacing the CPU, installing more memory or changing the Graphics card can improve the speed of the system considerably, they can also like the laptop certainly benefit from a service. Today the advent of the SSD Hard Drive (Solid State) is one of the most promising methods of speeding up the system, these devices directly replace the original Hard Drive in the system and as they don’t have any moving parts will turbo charge your Laptop or Desktop. Here at Planet PC we specialise in fitting and cloning your original drive over to a SSD. Come in and talk to us about the benefits a service and SSD installation can do for your system.
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