re: One Simple Solution for a Smooth running PC.
Monday, August 19, 2002 at 10:58 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Don
(8 messages posted)
Br, It's good to hear that you've got a handle on it.
Have you tried the WindowWasher trial download?
The know everything guys, at the computer shop, tried WindowWasher at my request.
It pulled out 150 megabytes of garbage, from 54000 files, off the hard drive of
their counter-top store's PC. Then the clerk downloaded AdAware, and it pulled out
the four most wicked spy trojans out there. Suddenly their computer was running
fast like it was a born again PC. The clerk was trying to hide his huge grin, till
he couldn't hide it any longer. He said, "This is eaxctly what my home computer
needs to bring it back up to speed."
If I ever got to where I could play in the registry like a pro, I'd still run Window
Washer at least twice a day. There are some single web pages out there that can
leave 400 Kb of active garbage permanently stored on your hard drive. Before I leave
the PC, I always run WindowWasher. In just a couple seconds WW finds 90% of C's
buried poop, and flushes it out of the PC. What WW does in a few seconds would probably
take a computer super-wiz 10 to 20 minutes. WW just super charges cleanup.
I agree that there things the novice shouldn't do, but that's how we learn. Like
how I nuked eight, $10 to $40, garage-sale PC's, while trying to figure out what
makes them tic, and finding out what not to do to a PC's mother board, cards, ram,
fans, drives, power supplies, and operating systems. It was FUN!
At times there were some pretty big sparks flying from the PC's. That was the fireworks
part of the ride. Usually "fireworks" meant that I done gone and fried another one.
I'd find a replacement the next Saturday at the garage sales, and here we go again.
"Watchout compooder! Here I come ready or not!"
At the local metal scrap yard the owner's son had ten 45 gallon drums full of ram,
and about 30 boxes full of PC circuit boards. He sold complete towers for $5 each.
Just to satisfy my curiosity I sliced a couple pentium chips right in half just
to see their inside under the microscope.
I used to want to learn how to play in the registry, but not anymore. Now that I've
got this toy working like a charm, I can relax back and forget about the glitches
and pain, and just use the derned thing as intended, as my notebook, my post office,
my typewriter, my photo-copier, and my library, and for just an hour or two a day.
I don't want it to take over my life.
I am reminded about a fellow I met in Toronto. He nearly lived inside his laptop.
When I met him and his shoplifting buddies, their jackets were bulging full of all
kinds of store junkfood treats. They called it, "supper", and rammed it into their
mouths like it was their first meal in a week.
The leader of the group said that he had to pee real bad. He flipped open his laptop
computer that he stole at a university library, brought up his cyber penthouse apartment,
scrolled to the bathroom, and peed in his pants right where he stood on the street.
He had to take his gushy shoes off and went barefoot for the next two blocks.
I just had to see more! It felt as if I had just entered the monkey cage at a zoo.
In his living room was a mountain of about three thousand out of jacket shoplifted
record albums, all flung to wherever they had happened to land. When he hung off
the bar ot the top of a doorway, and made ape sounds, I just about bolted and ran
out of there. He sat in his favorite spot, near the stereo, in his t-shirt and pee-soaked
underwear, ripping records of the turn table, tossing them to the top of the pile,
and trying another, and so on...
...I felt real sorry for a "brother" who had truly lost it...
...Nothing I could do there, he was now totally possessed by his PC, and probably
strungout on somekind of white powder and/or fumes.
In a sense he had become an extension of his PC.
...I left quietly and saddened...
...as I made my way down the steps, I heard another record being ripped away from
the stylus, then bouncing off the wall...
...As I made my way through the alley toward Young Street, I heard strange "ook ook"
sounds and "ieeee hoo-hoo-Hoo-Wooawk!" sounds, coming from their apartment, just
like the sounds chimps do at the zoos and on tv nature documentaries. His buddies
had passed me as I went through the alley, they had returned with more supper treats.
There was a lot of excitement over the jacket full of JoeLewises.
In his case WindowWasher can't help him much, except maybe to get him to his cyber
john a couple seconds faster, but it can help all us novices get and keep our slow
& obsolete W98 PC's running as fast and smooth as they can.
I read that those WindowWasher creators won major awards for it.
I'm not knockin' knowin' the registry. I honestly wish I knew even a tenth of what
Mr. Gates knows about PC operating systems. I wish I had the time to learn how to
mess with the registry without nuking the operating system. Then I'd be like a kid
with a flame thrower, rockets, grenades, and machine gun, in my PC's registry. But
for now, I'm just gonna leave the ole registry intact. Everything is running just
fine, smooth, and fast with this simple little system I've found, and as soon as
I get a slave drive, I'll install Ghost so I can dump C at the drop of a pin, and
reload as easy as right clicking a mouse when ever the operating system so much as
hiccups..
On Monday, August 19, 2002 at 8:48 pm, br wrote:
>You're on the right track Don and surely you are proud of your accomplishments.
Keeping
>a clean computer is a key to smooth performance and your new attitude will probably
>lead to even more things to further improvements.My solution is not as simple
>as yours because I have developed a system that has no need for Window Washer, AdAware,
>AVS, software firewalls, etc. But then, I am a performance freak and not a download
>junkie, so some of what I do would not be suitable for most people. However, I do
>use several utilities to keep a trim registry and I also do other housecleaning
chores
>on a regular basis. Even then, I format C: more often than normal to get rid of
a
>few cobwebs that cannot be prevented. I will also add that some of these reinstallations
>are due to radical experiments that a sane person would stay away from.
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