Spring Cleaning For Your Hard Drive

Shutup Now writes "Spring cleaning for your hardrive. This article talks about some extremes for keeping your computer running well. You decide whether this stuff is necessary." More than once a year is a good idea, too.

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Re:Stop! Don't Do it.

[gregmac]

Actually, I think that anyone that uses windows as a general-purpose PC (ie, many different purposes, always installing apps and changing hardware) over a long period of time will eventually need to do a fresh install to get rid of everything. Between spyware, old drivers, utility apps (QuickFinder, Screen Resolution Changer, etc) and flakey uninstall programs, it just gets to the point where it is physically impossible to maintain a nice working system.

The windows registry is one cause of this.. it's a huge unmanagable beast, with many ways to have things load and hook in to various operations.

On the other hand, using it as a business system or for a specialized task where you aren't constantly changing configurations, then you probably have more chance of a long-term install working properly. But I wold imagine most /.ers would fit in the former, here. I sure do.