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xp home and basic maintenance
I'm looking to put together a list of basic xp maintenance tasks,
something even a new pc owner can follow. Apart from optimizing the hdd and the registry, is there anything else I should consider ? Armouredsun |
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Use this link for a complete maintenance list:
http://aumha.org/articles.htm -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "armouredsun" wrote in message ... I'm looking to put together a list of basic xp maintenance tasks, something even a new pc owner can follow. Apart from optimizing the hdd and the registry, is there anything else I should consider ? Armouredsun |
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"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Use this link for a complete maintenance list: http://aumha.org/articles.htm -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "armouredsun" wrote in message ... I'm looking to put together a list of basic xp maintenance tasks, something even a new pc owner can follow. Apart from optimizing the hdd and the registry, is there anything else I should consider ? Armouredsun Thankyou colin. Armouredsun |
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armouredsun wrote:
I'm looking to put together a list of basic xp maintenance tasks, something even a new pc owner can follow. Apart from optimizing the hdd and the registry, is there anything else I should consider ? Armouredsun Leave the registry alone. The registry contains all of the operating system's "knowledge" of the computer's hardware devices, installed software, the location of the device drivers, and the computer's configuration. A misstep in the registry can have severe consequences. One should not even consider turning loose a poorly understood automated "cleaner," unless he is fully confident that he knows *exactly* what is going to happen as a result of each and every change. Having seen the results of inexperienced people using automated registry "cleaners," I can only advise all but the most experienced computer technicians (and/or hobbyists) to avoid them all. Experience has shown me that such tools simply are not safe in the hands of the inexperienced user. The only thing needed to safely clean your registry is knowledge and Regedit.exe. If you lack the knowledge and experience to maintain your registry by yourself, then you also lack the knowledge and experience to safely configure and use any automated registry cleaner, no matter how safe they claim to be. Further, no one has ever demonstrated, to my satisfaction, that the use of an automated registry cleaner, particularly by an untrained, inexperienced computer user, does any real good. There's certainly been no empirical evidence offered to demonstrate that the use of such products to "clean" WinXP's registry improves a computer's performance or stability. What specific problem are you experiencing that you *know* beyond all reasonable doubt will be fixed by using an automated registry cleaner? If you do have a problem that is rooted in the registry, it would be far better to simply edit (after backing up, of course) only the specific key(s) and/or value(s) that are causing the problem. Why use a shotgun when a scalpel will do the job? Additionally, the manually changing of one or two registry entries is far less likely to have the dire consequences of allowing an automated product to make multiple changes simultaneously. I always use Regedit.exe. I trust my own experience and judgment far more than I would any automated registry cleaner. I strongly encourage others to acquire the knowledge, as well. Other than that, a periodic disk clean-up and defragmentation should do the trick. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH |
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