re: Cleanup Routine Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 4:38 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gary (605 messages posted) hey mac theres two of them.which one do you down load uphclean exe, or uphclean setup. thanks On Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:28 am, Mac wrote: >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... > href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx">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) Written in response to: re: Cleanup Routine (Cam: Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:28 am) Responses to this message: re: Cleanup Routine (Cam: Friday, October 21, 2005 at 1:18 am) All messages in this thread [show all] windows xp shut down slow (navi: Mon, Sep 12, 2005, 8:25 am) re: windows xp shut down slow (yellow_submarine: Mon, Sep 12, 2005, 9:22 am) re: windows xp shut down slow (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Mon, Sep 12, 2005, 9:27 am) re: windows xp shut down slow (Matt: Mon, Oct 6, 2008, 5:45 am) re: Cleanup Routine (Cam: Mon, Sep 12, 2005, 9:28 am) re: Cleanup Routine (bïöµï¢: Wed, Oct 19, 2005, 11:45 am) re: Cleanup Routine (Cam: Wed, Oct 19, 2005, 12:03 pm) re: Cleanup Routine (bïöµï¢: Wed, Oct 19, 2005, 2:08 pm) re: Cleanup Routine (Cam: Thu, Oct 20, 2005, 2:14 am) re: Cleanup Routine (gary: Thu, Oct 20, 2005, 4:38 pm) re: Cleanup Routine (Cam: Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 1:18 am) re: windows xp shut down slow (Cam: Mon, Sep 12, 2005, 9:36 am) re: windows xp shut down slow (jef nolan: Sat, Mar 18, 2006, 9:10 am) re: windows xp shut down slow (Bob Rubendunst: Fri, Mar 16, 2007, 7:28 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum