Research Paper on:
Improving Windows’® Performance

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their various incarnations over the years have been metaphoric for televisions J.R. Ewing of "Dallas," frequently billed as the "one you love to hate." We have groaned over the  "blue screen of death," we have growled in frustration as everything quits working as a deadline bears down, yet few of us consider using any other operating system. There  are ways around Windows(r) influence on workers attitudes, however. The purpose here is to suggest improvements that could be made relative to CPU  use, memory and I/O devices. CPU Use For someone who works fully in the electronic environment, it can be common to have open  at a single time a generic browser; a subscription service such as America Online; Microsoft Word - eight, ten or more files - eFax Messenger fax reader; the Windows calculator;  Microsoft Excel; and the results of a search for a specific file. When Explorer stalls, a trip into the Task Manager normally wakes it up again, but not before  the user has opportunity to watch on the Task Manager screen the real-time record of CPU usage. It ranges from single-digit to nearly 100 percent use, when there is  little discernible demand for services. There is no indication that work will become any simpler or reduce in volume. Indeed, as businesses  continue to struggle to deal with the hypercompetitive climate in which they operate, they will continue to try to wring greater productivity out of fewer people. Businesses are under  continuing pressure to reduce costs, and labor costs perennially account for the greatest portion of total costs. Programmers know all too well how truly portable is work done fully