Can Loonies Speed Up Your PC?

Topics Computer, Software on February 29th, 2008

I tend to be wary of programs that purport to make computers go faster, fix problems and so on. The vast majority of them are worthless snake oil. I’m also a bit suspicious of Russian software – they’ve still got a reputation for dodgy programs and scams and anything that comes from a company called Loonies is bound to set the alarm bells ringing so Actual Booster doesn’t get off to a very promising start.

Nevertheless, after giving it a fairly thorough road test I can tell you that Actual Booster really does liven things up a bit. It’s also free, and as far as I can see there’s no iffy content and it doesn’t try to phone home. So how does it work? In fact there’s no real magic, all it does is allocate more resources to the program that’s running on top of the desktop, everything else gets put on a low priority. That means if you are using Word or Excel, it gets the lion’s share of your PC’s CPU and memory, and it runs a bit quicker. If you then switch to another program then it gets a boost. Nothing else is affected; background programs and services retain their original priorities. The program is tiny just 64k and it installs in a couple of seconds, and if there’s no improvement just remove it; what have you got to lose?
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