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After previously clearing up the major causes of problems on my computer, yesterday I tracked down what seem to be the last couple of remaining glitches on my system. Having already eliminated the crashes, huge slowdowns, and the such, I discovered three more tweaks that restored even more sparkle to my system's virtual eye. First I learned what was causing Outlook to remain silently running after being closed (among other problems), as the latest NVIDIA drivers install a service called "NVIDIA Driver Helper Service," which provides no discernable benefits, but does cause problems. I also found a couple of things that were causing browser woes... installing a newer version of Java helped clear up some wonkiness, and it finally occurred to me that the incredible slowness of my context-sensitive menus when right clicking something in Explorer was caused by a handy Google toolbar I had installed. It's quite a pleasure to have all these nagging problems cleared up, and I am very happy to see that my notion that this PC has more reliable service left in it was justified.

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