I have a laptop that I use for most of my software testing and review writing.  It is about a year and half old, and lately I have been noticing an interesting phenomenon.  When I bought it, about 18 months ago, it was blazing fast.  Even after I loaded Vista, I was still impressed by how fast it ran.  Over time, however, I’ve noticed a significant decrease in speed.  In short, my hare has become a tortoise.  And I don’t care what they say about racing, in computers, slow and steady gets tossed out the window.  As you can imagine, this has become a source of increasing irritation for me, as my computer can take up to 10 minutes just to boot up and connect to the Internet.  Yikes!  So, when we received an offer from Large Software to review their PC Tune Up program, I jumped right it in with both feet.  I mean, come on, even if it doesn’t work at all, it can’t possibly make my computer any slower, right?  Hit the jump and we’ll find out.

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