A quick question from a reader: I’m running Vista 32-bit and would like to know which programs are the only ones absolutely required for startup. Thanks. Turning off unnecessary startup programs

Over at the Official Google Webmaster Blog, Matt warns that Google might (someday) factor in page load times when returning search results. In other words, if your website is slow,

That's a screenshot from my favorite free tool for testing hard disk performance--HD Tune (there's a pro version you can buy, too). That's from my Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 1.5