Keeping your pc healthy ! - Page 3

Xaccers · 22-02-2004, 23:55

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Originally Posted by Julian

The answer to which can be found Here

Very handy if you dual boot and have more than 512MB then

*have an IOU green rep

Buzzby · 23-02-2004, 00:21

You can always have a look here.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12448

Stuartbe · 23-02-2004, 00:39

I find that the ms patch does not allways work..

I find www.outertech.com 's cacheman app the most helpfull..

**Paul** · 23-02-2004, 00:56

All sound advice.

I think point one is a bit extreme - you cannot evaluate software without installing it and then uninstalling it later

Most home users do not need to defrag or scan their disks weekly - monthly would be more than adequate.

Stuartbe · 23-02-2004, 00:59

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Originally Posted by pem

All sound advice.

I think point one is a bit extreme - you cannot evaluate software without installing it and then uninstalling it later

Most home users do not need to defrag or scan their disks weekly - monthly would be more than adequate.

Thanks Pem - Very true... What I am trying to diswade is users following the old cover mag cd way.... (lets stick all this in and see what it does) culture........

NB - The more freqently defrag is run the lees time it takes. All my workstations and servers defrag at 2:00 am every week.

**Paul** · 23-02-2004, 01:08

Btw - 6 pips now - you will need to ask the mods to make the user box bigger soon - to fit them all in

Nikko · 23-02-2004, 01:12

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Originally Posted by pem

Btw - 6 pips now - you will need to ask the mods to make the user box bigger soon - to fit them all in

Lol pem - I just spent 10 mins tracking him down to say well done on 6 pips - doubtless by the time this appears he will be well gone to another thread

Stuartbe · 23-02-2004, 01:14

Thanks guys.... I am still here - I was waiting to see if I could help kabukimam but he apears to have done what I should do and go to bed...

ntl customer · 23-02-2004, 02:19

Another thing I would recommend doing with regards to temporary files is to set up a directory for each program that has to use them.

So for example in mine (I am the only user of this computer so I have stuck the temp dir in the root) I have

e:\temporary\winzip

e:\temporary\winrar

e:\temporary\adobe audition

e:\temporary\windows

e:\temporary\microsoft word

So that, for example if I extract a word file from a zip file using winzip and close winzip and forget to save it to the place where I keep all my personal files on the j:\ partition the all important word document which I have spent hours working on will not be blitzed when I choose to clear out the temporary files. I'm sure we've done that at some time or another.

Then you won't get tons of useless files dumped in one folder.

ntl customer · 23-02-2004, 02:24

Also how do you schedule the computer to do things such as virus & disc scans at obscure hours?

I want my computer's clock to be fairly accurate, and for this I have a program called 'Dimension 4' which syncs to the ntl time server every 3 hours (or at least that's what it's supposed to do). I have got it set up in scheduled tasks to do it every 181 minutes but I can't seem to be able to get it to work every 3 hours - I want it to do it when the clock turns 12, 3, 6 or 9 on the dot.

Screenshot is attached - can you tell me where I'm going wrong?

Thanks

**Paul** · 23-02-2004, 02:37

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Originally Posted by ntl customer

Screenshot is attached - can you tell me where I'm going wrong?

Not from that screen shot - click on the advanced button and post that screen shot.

ntl customer · 23-02-2004, 02:42

Here's the advanced settings.

I cannot get it to lower the duration.

DrAwesome · 23-02-2004, 02:46

If anyone is running win95/win98/win98se if your operating system is running slow reboot into safe mode & check in your system properties\device manager\ & check to see if you have anything installed twice or maybe three times, if you have delete them & then reboot back into your operating system as normal, then reboot back into safe mode & check your system properties\device manager\ again if you look at the area where you deleted those multiple installs you should only see them installed once, reboot back into your operating system & you should find that your operating system is quicker.

OldGeezer · 23-02-2004, 08:48

Point 9 - after deleting temporary files and before defrag, remember to empty the recycle bin!

Julian · 23-02-2004, 09:12

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Originally Posted by DrAwesome

If anyone is running win95/win98/win98se if your operating system is running slow reboot into safe mode & check in your system properties\device manager\ & check to see if you have anything installed twice or maybe three times, if you have delete them & then reboot back into your operating system as normal, then reboot back into safe mode & check your system properties\device manager\ again if you look at the area where you deleted those multiple installs you should only see them installed once, reboot back into your operating system & you should find that your operating system is quicker.

I have used a nifty little tool for that - Easycleaner - Available free here

* Is now waiting for someone to say " don't use that it's **** "