From Planet Green: Fix Mom and Dad's Computer
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 11.27.08
A year ago when Planet Green was in beta, we did a big push on Thanksgiving. We recycle a few of them here.
You know how it is when you head home for Thanksgiving; Lifehacker describes it:
I keep getting these pop ups, he'll say. It's just been so slow lately, she'll say. I keep seeing this flashing picture of a roulette wheel that just won't go away. Can you take a look at it?
So many people give up on perfectly good computers because they think they are old and slow, but the folks aren't playing War of the Ring or building in Second Life, so processor speed is no longer of the essence. The greenest thing to do is to get those Windows computers into fighting trim:
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