Basic system maintenance for Windows users

[jackluo923]

Originally Posted by Zuune

Thats good info. From my personal experiance i recomend that u install most of the programs u will be using (if u have them) before u make multiple users. Also some programs like hp software like to put unnesery icons in the notification area, i recomend staying away from them if their are alternatives or u dont nesseraily need them.

You know that you can hide these unneccessary icon by choosing which icons to hide and which ones you want.

[matchu21]

I have noticed in CCleaner I have the zune program on my laptop and it doesnt clean Zune transfer, so if you us CCleaner aslo run Disk Cleanup and it is towards the bottom.

[marco456]

wow! took a while to read but all really useful stuff.

[monahan]

Originally Posted by Robb4248

If you run Windows XP on an NTFS disk, there will be no reason to defrag.

*cough*bullsh*t*cough*

OK. Another tip for those of you on windows XP looking for a little bit more performance. warning in order to use this tweak, you MUST have a high capacity hard drive and no worries of space consumption.

First you need to get to the system panel; you can do this by right clicking on the my computer link and selecting properties, or click on teh control panel and select "system". Once you're on this menu, you should see the entire system properties; select the advanced tab, and then performance. So to reiterate:

control panel>system>advanced>performance

or

my computer (right click)>properties>advanced>performance

once clicking on the settings button, you should see an option under the advanced tab for virtual memory; click on the option to change, you can set the virtual memory size to a larger amount. This provides a larger buffer to process data, which should make your workflow improve.