Comments on: System Cleanup http://cdharrison.com/2007/08/30/system-cleanup/ This is the personal site/blog/experiment of Chris Harrison, a web designer living, working and playing in Augusta, GA. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:12:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Matt http://cdharrison.com/2007/08/30/system-cleanup/#comment-6339 Matt Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:14:43 +0000 http://cdharrison.com/2007/08/30/system-cleanup/#comment-6339 Beat ya to it. I nuked my hard drive with DBAN, re-formatted, and re-installed Windows twice this year. The second time I took the opportunity to properly partition my hard-drive so I could dual-boot Linux and put my data on a different partition than the OS. I was careful to only re-install apps that I still use. My system is more also responsive. Something else I recommend is using the task scheduler to schedule run dskchk and a defrag (if needed) every once in a while. Mine is scheduled for every two weeks. The next order of business is opening up my case and cleaning all the dust out. I shudder just to think about it since the box is several years old and hasn't had a good cleaning. Beat ya to it. I nuked my hard drive with DBAN, re-formatted, and re-installed Windows twice this year. The second time I took the opportunity to properly partition my hard-drive so I could dual-boot Linux and put my data on a different partition than the OS.

I was careful to only re-install apps that I still use. My system is more also responsive.

Something else I recommend is using the task scheduler to schedule run dskchk and a defrag (if needed) every once in a while. Mine is scheduled for every two weeks.

The next order of business is opening up my case and cleaning all the dust out. I shudder just to think about it since the box is several years old and hasn’t had a good cleaning.

]]> By: Matt http://cdharrison.com/2007/08/30/system-cleanup/#comment-12206 Matt Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:14:43 +0000 http://cdharrison.com/2007/08/30/system-cleanup/#comment-12206 Beat ya to it. I nuked my hard drive with DBAN, re-formatted, and re-installed Windows twice this year. The second time I took the opportunity to properly partition my hard-drive so I could dual-boot Linux and put my data on a different partition than the OS.<br><br>I was careful to only re-install apps that I still use. My system is more also responsive.<br><br>Something else I recommend is using the task scheduler to schedule run dskchk and a defrag (if needed) every once in a while. Mine is scheduled for every two weeks.<br><br>The next order of business is opening up my case and cleaning all the dust out. I shudder just to think about it since the box is several years old and hasn't had a good cleaning. Beat ya to it. I nuked my hard drive with DBAN, re-formatted, and re-installed Windows twice this year. The second time I took the opportunity to properly partition my hard-drive so I could dual-boot Linux and put my data on a different partition than the OS.

I was careful to only re-install apps that I still use. My system is more also responsive.

Something else I recommend is using the task scheduler to schedule run dskchk and a defrag (if needed) every once in a while. Mine is scheduled for every two weeks.

The next order of business is opening up my case and cleaning all the dust out. I shudder just to think about it since the box is several years old and hasn’t had a good cleaning.

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