{"id":1595,"date":"2007-06-25T18:40:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/put-your-pc-on-a-diet\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:52:58","slug":"put-your-pc-on-a-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/put-your-pc-on-a-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Put your PC on a diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Put your PC on a diet\" id=\"image1594\" title=\"Put your PC on a diet\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/06\/diet.jpg\" \/>A few weeks before summer&#8217;s arrival, many of us go on diet in a desperate attempt to get rid of all those spare tyres before having to show our bodies in a swimsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The same could be applied to computers: there are <em>light <\/em>alternatives to the heavy software big shots that can do the job almost as well, taking up less space, memory and system resources.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gathered some of them for you, so that you can put your PC on a diet too.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of using the actual <a href=\"http:\/\/quicktime.en.softonic.com\/\">Quicktime<\/a>, have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/media-player-classic.en.softonic.com\/\">Media Player Classic<\/a>, with support for lots of video formats.<\/li>\n<li>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/adobe-reader.en.softonic.com\/\">Acrobat Reader<\/a> for those PDF files? Forget about it: <a href=\"http:\/\/foxit-pdf-reader.en.softonic.com\/\">Foxit Reader<\/a> opens up much faster and works equally well.<\/li>\n<li>If you still use <a href=\"http:\/\/acdsee-photo-manager.en.softonic.com\/\">ACDsee<\/a> to view your pictures, it&#8217;s time for you to test <a href=\"http:\/\/irfanview.en.softonic.com\/\">IrfanView<\/a> and see what this amazing program can do.<\/li>\n<li>Forget about listening to music with <a href=\"http:\/\/winamp.en.softonic.com\/\">Winamp<\/a>, try <a href=\"http:\/\/xmplay.en.softonic.com\/\">XMplay<\/a> instead and enjoy your favorite songs just the same.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nero-7.en.softonic.com\/\">Nero<\/a> recording suite is the definition of bloated software: if you just want to record a simple CD or DVD, try <a href=\"http:\/\/express-burn.en.softonic.com\/\">Express Burn<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks before summer&#8217;s arrival, many of us go on diet in a desperate attempt to get rid of all those spare tyres before having to show our bodies in a swimsuit. The same could be applied to computers: there are light alternatives to the heavy software big shots that can do the job &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/put-your-pc-on-a-diet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Put your PC on a diet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337522,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/337522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}