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PC Workout

Does your PC run as if it's over the hill? Follow these three steps to get it sprinting again.

Matt Lake

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If you're slowing down a bit, your doctor might tell you to pop a few vitamins, lay off the fats and sugars, and visit the gym more often. But pepping up your PC requires a very different regime.

This PC workout plan focuses on healthy exercises that free up bogged-down hard drives and memory resources. With regular workouts--and I'm talking only once every one or two months, not three times a week--you can trim layers of ugly fat from your PC's hard drive and RAM. Unlike a visit to the gym, it should take no more than 15 or 20 minutes, and you'll notice the difference immediately. What personal health spa could truthfully make a claim like that?

Come on people, shake those buns!

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