{"id":33778,"date":"2020-07-21T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/?p=33778"},"modified":"2020-07-21T17:39:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T21:39:03","slug":"one-proven-way-to-speed-up-an-old-computer-voosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/one-proven-way-to-speed-up-an-old-computer-voosh\/","title":{"rendered":"One proven way to speed up an old computer – Voosh!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019ve been holed up at home, one of the things you might not have thought of is to improve your computer\u2019s performance.\u00a0 Just like a car, periodic maintenance can improve the user experience. And, wouldn\u2019t you know, there\u2019s a company that can help \u2013 Voosh<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Voosh will be formerly released Wednesday 7\/22; but I\u2019ve been using it for a week now, and I can relate some positive results from my experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voosh Performance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a nutshell, big companies spend thousands of dollars each year optimizing processors, servers, networks, etc., just to keep their companies humming at top speed. Well now, the engineers at Voosh have analyzed those processes and using AI, they\u2019ve created what they call Active Continuous Optimization (ACO for short). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In plain English, that means that their software monitors your computer every half hour or so and tweaks the settings until your computer starts and runs as fast as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presently, it only works on Windows, but an iOS version is slated for later this year. You pay only as you use it – $9.97 per month or $44.97 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The genius of this program is that nothing changes permanently, so if you decide you don\u2019t think it is enough of an improvement, simply stop paying for it, and everything will be reset as it was before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what I experienced:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The install is super simple.\u00a0 Download the program, run the executable file and reboot. That\u2019s basically it.\u00a0 No complicated questions or settings you need to select.\u00a0 The program does it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program also has a dashboard so you can monitor its progress, and because it relies on AI, the longer it runs, the better it can tweak your system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first installed it, here was the immediate result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Network speeds also increased<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But, after a week, that initial 36.3% improvement was up to 61.0%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s pretty impressive!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I was pleasantly surprised to see how effortless that was for such a marked improvement.\u00a0 You too can try it out for a week \u2013 for free \u2013 right here:\u00a0 Try a free week of Voosh Performance on up to five computers.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Disclosure: Voost provided copies of this software to enable us to do this review. Opinions are and always will be totally our own.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stock photo by\u00a0chuttersnap<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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