How To Perform General Maintainance On Your PC (Guide)

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=Jamie932;18942695]Is there any advantages to Defraggler? I use Smart Defrag.[/QUOTE]

I use Auslogics. I have a feeling they all do the same thing, it's just a matter of preference.

[aixxe]

Thanks for the boot CPU tip. I find TuneUp really helps too.

[Olsfaer]

remember to frequently perform this maintenance, about once every 2 weeks, or once a week if a heavy PC user, it'll keep everything running fast and smooth :)

[MetricMoose]

[url]http://www.malwarebytes.org/[/url]
Good program

[BmB]

[url]http://www.withinwindows.com/2008/08/09/tweaking-myth-increase-boot-performance-for-multi-core-users-with-msconfig/[/url]

[blackdenton]

Windows 7 seems to have set up a weekly defrag for me by default. Neat.

[KillerBox]

[QUOTE=Nyaos;18921465]My friend actually reformats his hard drive when anything begins to slow down. He does this like every month. He has OCD.[/QUOTE]

Ha! I do the same thing as he does.

[Olsfaer]

[QUOTE=BmB;18946410][url]http://www.withinwindows.com/2008/08/09/tweaking-myth-increase-boot-performance-for-multi-core-users-with-msconfig/[/url][/QUOTE]

cheers babes

[BmB]

[QUOTE=Ori Child;18939359]So, i was breifly looking though the guide and knew about most of it except the being able to turn things off in the msconfig.

So i thought... hmm, well my laptop is horribly slow... maybe this will help...
Then i got worried... is this bad?
[img]http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/5215/ummz.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

The fact that the lenght of that list exceeds the size of the window is why.

[Ori Child]

[QUOTE=BmB;18959178]The fact that the lenght of that list exceeds the size of the window is why.[/QUOTE]

I have a lot of crap on my craptop. To be honest i'm surprised it still works, the fan stopped working for like a year, no ventilation, and before that the screen decided to break for about 6 months.
Still, all magically fixed with a screwdriver x]

[RoBaDoB]

-Snip-

[Maccabee]

Did you forget services.msc? If I look through windows services and make a list of services you can disable if you don't use networking or printing, will you add it?

edit:

Also, from what I have seen, you can disable ALL startup items and it won't effect/break anything. I have everything disabled, but my AV.

[yngndrw]

Crit:
You should warn people who have solid state drives that de-fragmenting their SSDs is unneeded (As they are designed to fragment the drive in order to wear-level) and will reduce the life of their drive by quite a bit.

[1337asian]

Don't forget to mention dusting out your case :P