PC World - As it turns out, Windows Vista really wasn't all that slow; and no, your PC probably won't fry if you open it up without wearing a wrist strap. Thanks in large part to the Internet, the tech world is teeming with lies, half-truths, and misinformation. We've dug up some of the ***'s most notorious nuggets of conventional wisdom to see which hold up to scrutiny and which are merely urban legends.

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