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Abiword is a Free Open Source Word Processor which is fast . Abiword is not an office suite since it does not come with a spreadsheet program like Excel or presentation program like Powerpoint like MS Office 2007, so the file size of Abiword on your computer hard drive is small. It does not use a lot of RAM, CPU, hard drive, monitor space system resources, so it is the best word processor for slower Netbooks, laptops, or computers with very little RAM, a slow CPU, or not enough free space to install a full office suite like MS Office 2007 or Open Office by Oracle. Abiword has most of the functions that most users need like spell check, dictionary for many different languages, word count, margin editing, page break, header, footer, and a lot more. The user interface is similar to MS word 2003, so there is not a long learning curve. It took me about a few minutes to learn all the features I normally use when typing up a report.

Click Here to learn more about AbiWord and why it is great for Slower computers, Netbooks, and Laptops

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VLC media player

Netbooks are slower then laptops and desktop computers made in the same year, but people still use Netbooks for listening to music, watching movies, and short online videos. However, some multimedia software uses more system resources then other multimedia software when playing music songs and  videos. There are some multimedia player which have fancy and nice looking themes which use more system resources then multimedia players with plain themes.

When a computer uses too many resources because you are running too many programs or using programs which uses too much of your Netbooks Hard drive, RAM and CPU resources, your music might skip, and your videos frame rate will be slowdown like you are watching a slow animated flip book.

The worst kind of multimedia player for slow Windows computers like Netbooks is multimedia players which loads itself during Windows Computer startup, load services automatically, have a lot of animations, bloated user interface, special effects, visualizations, and plug-ins you don’t need to open music or videos.

In this post, I will introduce you to low system resource media players which has all or most of the features you need for playing back your favorite song, and video files without making your Netbook very slow.

This guide for picking low system resource multimedia players for your netbooks  also works for slower computers or laptops which run on Windows 7, XP, Vista, and below which have a slower CPU like a Intel Pentium III or Celeron and very little RAM like 256MB-512MB.

Click here to learn which Multimedia playback and encoding software which uses very little system resources

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Auslogics Disk Defrag

Windows Disk Defrag sometimes takes a long time to finish. I notice there is very little you can do to speed up disk defrag  in most cases. I’m usually stuck waiting for the little progress bar to reach the end of the bar, and watch those little squares, or lines being moved around on the disk defrag program which can be very slow and boring. It is ironic how slow disk defrags are, but without doing disk defrags your computer hard drive will open files slower which means windows will feel slower then usual the more your hard drive gets fragmented by files being located all over your drive causing your hard drive read and write head to move more while your drives spin.

We all probably heard people say, “Disk defrags can improve Windows performance”, but how many people know how to speed up and improve disk defrag performance?

I recently found a few simple ways to speed up the disk defrag time by reducing the amount of fragmented files on my system hard drive partition to defrag and increasing my free available  system resources  for doing my disk defrag faster.

Click here to read my Top 10 Disk Defrag Speed Up Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Windows

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