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Old February 15th 05, 05:53 AM
armouredsun
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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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Old February 15th 05, 06:19 AM
Colin Barnhorst
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Use this link for a complete maintenance list:
http://aumha.org/articles.htm

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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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Old February 15th 05, 07:06 AM
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"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message
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Use this link for a complete maintenance list:
http://aumha.org/articles.htm

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"armouredsun" wrote in message
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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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Old February 16th 05, 04:26 AM
Bruce Chambers
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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.


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