re: Cleanup Routine
Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:28 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
XP INFO
"Run Disk Cleanup and remove all but the last restore point. See if your System Restore
cache and Recycle Bin size is set at a reasonable level (Say 1024Mb) on each drive,
and reduce the IE Temporary Internet Files cache and History cache to the minimum.
Install CCLeaner and clean out all of the junk files. Unhide all files and folders
and remove the hotfix uninstallers ( $NTUninstaller$ ) from the hidden C:\Windows
folder and remove their entries from Add-Remove programs.
(Note: Some Security updates should NOT be removed so check in add-remove programs
- before - doing this task.)
Then remove the contents of:
The C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations folder
The C: WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder
The C:\WINDOWS\Temp folder
The C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\Datacoll folder, and...
The C:\Windows\Prefetch folder
(You can add these folders to EmpTemp if you have this program installed.) Then run
chkdsk and defrag."
(Do - not - allow these programs to run on system startup as it can cause problems
with update and installation temp files which need to stay in the TEMP folder whilst
the computer is re-booted. The same applies to all programs which empty TEMP folders
on system start-up.)
Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files
EmpTemp & CCLeaner
To make your shutdown clean, install the... UserProfileHiveCleanupService"
TweakUI is useful to have for certain repairs, as well as for performace tweaks...POWERTOYS
Backup your registry and optimise it too, for a faster boot-up...ERUNT-NTREGOPT
Mac
TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF IDIOTS YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH
(WIZARD OF ID)
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