General maintainence of computer...advice

bloodline76 · 16 Feb 2008 at 14:00

Hi

Other than cleaning up temp files, cookies and defrag. Are there any other things that you can do to help keep your computer running well.

Thanks

Ratbag · 16 Feb 2008 at 14:32

Run as few so-called security programs as possible. I've read of people using multiple anti-spyware and anti-viral apps, many of which are memory resident and consume memory and CPU power galore. Some morons apparently run two (2!) firewalls simultaneously. Don't be one of them.

Use Winpatrol (or something like it) to alert you when a program tries to set itself to launch on startup. Have as few items in your system tray as possible.

Cosimo · 16 Feb 2008 at 14:51

Uninstall programs you don’t use, see what you have in the startup folder and get rid of it and do you really need to have lots of shortcut icons on your desktop.

GraemeUK · 16 Feb 2008 at 15:50

Ratbag said:
Use Winpatrol (or something like it) to alert you when a program tries to set itself to launch on startup. Have as few items in your system tray as possible.

Use the startup option in Ccleaner which is an easy way to delete startup registry entires.