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It used to be that shutting down a computer frequently would stress out the hardware and cause it to fail earlier.   With the advances in power-saving technology as well as the quality of certain components over the last decade, that is no longer the case.  In fact, the longer a computer is kept powered on, especially with laptops and netbooks, the faster the computer will age and eventually fail.

Imagine taking your car to a dealership for service, then finding out that no one at the dealership actually does work on cars.  Instead, they call up someone in another country who does the work, while the guys you thought were working on your car sit back and watch.  Crazy right? 

The sad thing is that this model has been adopted by many of the big-box stores for computer repair (we won’t mention them by name, because we wouldn’t want to call out Staples and Best Buy on their practices (wait…    whoops…))

Looking for an easy speed boost for your PC without spending any money?  Windows uses a decent amount of resources just displaying graphical goodies like shadows under the mouse cursor and pretty buttons.  Try the following steps to reduce the amount of memory and processor speed that Windows itself robs you of with some of its graphical goodies.  You can enable or disable  the listed features in the menu as you go to fine tune what things you want to see or not.