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Unread 27 Jan 2005, 10:28   #1
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How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

IE running Defrag/scandisk,cleaning the registry, runing ad-ware/whatever and other such things?

What kind of system do you have (lets just keep it to the CPU,ram and HD size, eh?) .


Me: Defrag nightly with disk keeper and scandisk with the windows program about once a fortnight, reg clean when I can be bothered, ad-aware every week.

P3 800,384mb ram and 25gb HD.



Im just curious after having ran a virus scanner on someones pc and noticed that they had about 300k files on their PC and they are a light home user but I doubt it ever crossed their mind that this could present a kind of performance problem....they have power to burn as such.
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Unread 27 Jan 2005, 10:39   #2
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

P3 800, 40gb and 80gb, 892mb ram.

Adware/search 'n destroy about once a week. Defrag/scandisk once a month on average, just when I feel my pc is working slower then it should.

Norton virus scan about once in two weeks.
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Unread 27 Jan 2005, 10:41   #3
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

Probably not as often as I should anymore. Back in the days of DOS I used to do it quite religiously, but now I geuss I'm just too slack to. Plus technology has changed in a way that we now side-step the traditional way of doing things and do it the quick and easy way. Instead of manually stripping out every last bit of problematic software we tend to do the Format / Re-install routine, instead of marking out the bad sectors on our HDD we just buy a new one.

Generally though I've found by being sensible about most things you can avoid most major issues, infact I've had a pretty much carefree PC until the whole adware / spyware thing became more of a plague than a simple annoyance.

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Unread 27 Jan 2005, 10:45   #4
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

Athlon 3000 1gb 500gb storage

Virus checked nightly
Scandisk and defrag weekly
Malware scans every 2 days

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Unread 27 Jan 2005, 10:47   #5
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

Agree with djbass here.

I sort through my directories ocassionally but I've noticed that storage space is less of an issue I don't bother deleting stuff anymore. Which leads to directory structures like this :
E:\backup\D's Stuff\-= Unknown - Please look and sort =-\Stuff to be backed up\Disaster Recovery\My Docs\backup\oldbackup\

On our server though it's defragged / scandisked / etc daily. Possibly more frequently, my friend is somewhat obsessed by such things.

On my personal machine it's 1.7Ghz Athlon 512mb RAM, 200GB, most of my files are elsewhere.
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Unread 27 Jan 2005, 10:50   #6
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

duron 950 256 ram 120Gb HDD, which generally runs at about 20Gb full

havent scandisked or defragged in god knows how long, run the check occationally, but it always claims i dont need to run them

run ad aware and SS&D every couple of weeks though, but don't generally get a lot of stuff cos i tend to use the same few websites
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Unread 27 Jan 2005, 10:57   #7
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

generally i do a clean format and reinstall every 2-3 months.
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

XP1700+, 1024mb RAM, 200GB HDD, etc etc, running stable for many, many moons now (last reinstall was last summer I think).

Rarely. I about never defrag, because there is never enough room on the HDD's for it (you need atleast 15% free space).
I rarely check for virii or mallware because the computer is 1) not directly connected to the web, 2) IE doesn't get used on it, and 3) I'm a smart user and don't install weird software and keep everything up-to-date.
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Unread 27 Jan 2005, 11:00   #9
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

Run defrag once a month if space is available, and I try to do a full reinstall of windows every 6 months or so.

Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton), 1536Mb of RAM, 120Gbx3, 200Gbx2 hard drives wise.

It's booting noticably slower than it used to, but aside from that I'm not having any performance issues; it's still running Half Life 2 and Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines quite happily at reasonable detail and 1280x1024.

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Virus checking whenever I remember.

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i never do anything, except for virus scans from time to time
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

p4 1.8, 384 megs of ram and a 20gb HD.

Virus Scan once a week. do adawear scan every 2 days or so... cant remember when i last defragged lol
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AMD athlon 1000. 150gb and 16gb hard drives. 256mb RAM.
spyware/virus scan done every few days.
Defrag I haven't bothered in a while similarly with scandisk.
I don't install much so don't have problems with space or junk. My small drive is full of crap though.
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athlon xp1800 , 512mb ram , 60 and 80 gig HDs.
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Rebuilt slocate database by cron job nightly, SuSE update every week or so for OS updates. That's about it really (on my home machine at least)..
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when in winxp sp2: virus scan every morning 8am (I'm usually either at uni or still in bed at that time), I run firefox, and only use IE for two specific websites that refuse to provide compatability with firefox, so... spyware/malware?? windows update when new patches get announced.
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P4 2.6 Ghz, 1GB RAM, 60GB (42GD Used) 40GB (12GB Used) HHD Space.

Defragment and Scan Disk monthly when ever it seems to be running slower than normal. Only virus scan when I suspect I have a virus, I rarely bother with Ad Ware or Spybot these days (<3 Firefox) but when I was using IE I used to do it every 3 days.
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I run firefox, and only use IE for two specific websites that refuse to provide compatability with firefox, so... spyware/malware??
That's a poor argument if I ever saw one, there's plenty more ways to get spyware/malware on your machine other than through IE and without your knowledge.


Also, perhaps we should all take the good docktor's advice and defraggle our HDD.
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Defrag runs nightly on system disk - weekly on RAID, scandisk runs nightly, MS AntiSpyware runs nightly and AVG7 after all that has finished.

Windows update just runs when it has something to update, as it's set to update automatically - I'm running a legal setup with no dodgy software so it's no issue.

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Windows update just runs when it has something to update, as it's set to update automatically - I'm running a legal setup with no dodgy software so it's no issue.
I turned off Autoupdate on my laptop, which is a legal setup with no dodgy software. There are other reasons that people find it annoying you know.
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I'm yet to find it annoying, it saves me going to the Windows Update site to check.
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

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I'm yet to find it annoying, it saves me going to the Windows Update site to check.
'Hey!', it says 'Here's SP2 for you to install!'
'No thanks.', I say.
'OK!' it says.
'Hey!', it says a day later, having wasted more of my bandwidth, 'Here's SP2 for you to install!'

I actually lied earlier. I haven't turned Automatic Updates off on my laptop, because it's impossible to turn it off when it's downloading something, and it's always downloading ****ing SP2.
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This reminded me I should do this tbh
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4Mb downstream on my broadband pipe solves that problem though.

Poor Marky and his 56k
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That's a poor argument if I ever saw one, there's plenty more ways to get spyware/malware on your machine other than through IE and without your knowledge.
Granted, to an extent.
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4Mb downstream on my broadband pipe solves that problem though.

Poor Marky and his 56k
2Mb, but it's still wasted bandwidth.
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4Mb downstream on my broadband pipe solves that problem though.

Poor Marky and his 56k
56k ?

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What?
I didn't see your reply to Skiddy before i posted it

I saw it, then edited it

On reflection, I should have deleted it.

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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

I never run defrag, run spybot/adaware every few weeks, run antivirus every few months.

P366, 256mb RAM, 6gb HD - I still run Win98 !!
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

You really should defrag, especially as you'll be using FAT32.

On second thoughts, of course you won't be. FAT32 can only address 4 gigs of data.

You should still defrag though.
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

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You really should defrag, especially as you'll be using FAT32.

On second thoughts, of course you won't be. FAT32 can only address 4 gigs of data.

You should still defrag though.
Yeah, I know, but I fix other peoples computers all day every day and when I do get round to using my own, I really cant be arsed fiddling with it - I just switch it on and use it.
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

C: properties

Type: Local disk

File system: Fat32

Capacity 25.4 Gb


OS: Windows 98 SE

A touch more than 4Gb no?

Unless you meant read at once.
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Wait, I'm confusing Win95 with FAT32. I'm just a whole barrel of madness today.
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Yeah win95 had..issues with drives bigger than um....2gb I think but there was a patch/upgrade/virginal sacrifice to alleviate that problem.


I dont think Win 98 ever had it, but I could be wrong.....my memory doesnt extend that well into the mists of time and prehistory.
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Athlon 1 Ghz, 512 meg of SD ram, 40gb hard drive

never

virus which means i cant run dos programmes that i cant be bothered to remove; **** it.
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3Ghz, 512MB RAM, HDD 200GB + 160GB, + 200GB external.
Doing a thourough scandisk every other month.
Defrag only ever 2 or 3 months on the disks I use (lot's of data isn't actually moved that often).
Virus Scan almost never, SpyWare scan once a month.
But I try to keep everything working, safe and up2date.

Also I should do these things more often.
But NTFS is
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1.2 Ghz AMD Duron, 112mb RAM, 20 GB hard drive. Defrag every two months or so. Virus scan whenever.
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AMD 1800+, 512Mb RAM, 80Gb hard drive.

Defrag virtually never, scandisk virtually never, virus & adware scans when I can be arsed, once every other month or so.
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Not as many top end uber systems being listed as I had expected, though I wonder if Pyrit actually has 112mb of memory of if it was a typo
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16+32+64 Mb sticks seems a curious way to go.
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16+32+64 Mb sticks seems a curious way to go.
Not if the ram was being 'borrowed' from work as it became 'spare'
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Home computer maintenance? What are you talking about?

Just throw everything out from the window every four-five years and get the bestest topest of the line box and you'll be good.
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

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Home computer maintenance? What are you talking about?

Just throw everything out from the window every four-five years and get the bestest topest of the line box and you'll be good.
I read that as 'Forty Five'. My confusions were legion.
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

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Not as many top end uber systems being listed as I had expected, though I wonder if Pyrit actually has 112mb of memory of if it was a typo
yes it is true. Dixons saw me coming when I bought it on a credit card three years ago. I have yet to pay it off. Crap I know. Free neither the less......
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

Quite a new 3ghz laptop with 512mb ram and 60gb hard disk. I am yet to defrag it, I should do that.
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

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yes it is true. Dixons saw me coming when I bought it on a credit card three years ago. I have yet to pay it off. Crap I know. Free neither the less......

um....no offence but what kind of rate of interest are you paying it off at?

I'd be pissed if i was still paying for a Duron after 3 years.
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

p4 2.4Ghz. !gb ram 60gb hd with a graphics card.

And Reg MEchanic on boot + microsoft adwatch thing and defrag if it crashes
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

HP 2.08 GHz, 512 MB ram, 120 GB hard drive

-firewall log inspection of all outbound and unauthorized inbound activity - everyday
-Spyware Begone ver. 6.95 spyware, adware and data logger virus full scan and clean - every startup
-Nortan anti-virus full scan and clean - every 15 days
-archiving firewall logs - every 3 months before defragging
-defrag - every 3 months
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Re: How often do you do maintanence on your computer?

Athlon 64 3400, 1 GB ram, 420Gb hard drive with another 200 being recovered at the moment.

i never do any kind of defrag or virus scanning. i just use the computer responsibly, and if i think something's ****ed up i deal with it then.
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