When I'm promoting my AVB & AKI on the D/T forum (pun intended), and doing lightning trades to beat the algo bots (pun also intended) ... I think it's important that my computer runs smoothly, and is very fast!
I do this by running an IE browser for my banking & a different browser (FF/Chrome) for everything else.
I keep all of my software up-to-date, I ensure that my HD has more than 50% free space (so that it doesn't use a virtual memory), I put photos/vids/music/movies on a separate HD backup, and finally I do the same as the above posters and use ASC (Advanced System Care) which my partner tells me gets the thumbs up from PC mag, Gizmodo, and C-Net Magazine.
