Second Life of a Second-Hand Laptop

by Elizabeth

I've always been fine with a desktop computer, but the day came when I either had to get a laptop or forget about moving house. My choice was obvious - I decided to buy a laptop.

Due to financial problems I couldn't get anything better than a second-hand ten-year-old IBM with very little RAM and ridiculous hard-drive space. I figured it would be okay, since all I needed was MS Word and Internet connection. It turns out I was right and I wrong at the same time.

Everything worked fine for the first month or so, but then my laptop started getting slower and slower.

A little while after that it started freezing and crashing way too often for my liking. I checked it with different anti-viruses and anti-spywares, but they found nothing. The only solution seemed to be getting a new laptop. I wasn't quite ready for that, so I decided to keep looking for an alternative.

I've heard of various registry cleaners, power suites and optimization packs. So I went online and had a good look at some of them. Auslogics BoostSpeed was the one that caught my eye.

It's received positive reviews, awards, has lots of tools and was the cheapest on the market. Besides, it had a 15-days free trial period. So I downloaded it and ran all the tools one by one.

The result was amazing. Not only did my laptop stop crashing and freezing, but it became faster than it was when I first got it. It freed lots of valuable hard drive space, optimized my RAM usage, Internet connection, got rid of all registry errors and junk files (I didn't know there were so many of them hiding in there!).

My laptop is still working great, as I use BoostSpeed for weekly maintenance.

I thought it was impossible to fix that old IBM of mine and I'm so glad that this software proved me wrong.