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clean up your hard drive

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  • meerustar
    meerustar Posts: 8,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I use Adaware and Spybot - Update and run them once a week.

    Disc clean up every couple of nights

    Clear cookies once or twice a month

    and Disc Defrag every month or so and my machine runs ok.

    What will this new software find that I don't aready know about??????????
  • I use Diskeeper Lite and defrag both drives daily.
    Run easycleaner, pcpitstop and ccleaner weekly (so 3 cleans per week, spread across week).
    Run ad-aware daily, norton anti-virus scan daily (automatic).
    Norton Internet Security and Windows Defender running real time.
    Cookies set to prompt on all, only allow what I require, block most.
    Run registry fix regularly (freeware version) and edit out unwanted registries in regedit (not recommended for beginners).
    This is about as clean as it gets!

    Gave hitmanpro a try and all I found was what it had installed itself, cleared with Ad-aware, which I find to be the most thorough of the spyware scanners.
    Posted my warning purely to advise people to be careful.
  • how do you disc defrag?i have done this once but forgot now??
    appreciate what you have got x
  • to run the windows defrag, go to start, all programs, accessories, system tools and it should be there.
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