Here is a set of things to try for those of you suffering from poor PC performance, very slow boot up times, very slow application start up times, generally slow windows performance, security problems and other annoyances on Windows systems. 

Having a dual boot system, I find that when setting one OS time correctly will corrupt the other OS’s time. This has been going on for a while on my system despite numerous attempts to set the time properly. I suspect this has to do with BIOS settings but couldn’t pin point the correct [...]