Cleaning grungy keyboard?

cathy_3

yes according to geek son

you must hoover out your tower on a regular basis

clear cookies every day even twice a day and defrag every day or at least 3 times a week

to keep the puter in optimum condidtion

now if only he felt like that about his mum

16011996

not sure i'd want my kids hoovering me, a defrag mite help tho!!!

Allexie

Does everyone defrag and de-cookie every day then???

cathy_3

they do in this house doesnt take a second to start it off and you can carry on using the puter while its doing it

cookies are important to clear daily as spyware etc can track you by them

I used to think that if you were de fragging that was the puter out of use but it isnt so I just click on the defragg on my desktop and carry on

it only takes about 5 mins if you do it daily as opposed to hours if you do it infrequently

Allexie

Righty-ho...have to try doing it daily then. Has been taking about an hour doing it on weekly basis. When it's running in the background it seems to slow everything else down, (or is it my imagination?).

Thanks for that....and all I was worried about was the state of my keyboard! :-/

cathy_3

HOLD THE PHONE

seems I cant carry out the simplest of instructions

I emailed him and he replied



You need to defrag you hard drives at least one a week. This will help keep the file structure tidy and greatly help to keep your pc running fast and smooth. symptoms of a heavily fragmented hard drive are : slow to open any application, navigating through windows is very slow and laggy, trying to open up a hard drive, say C: takes a lot longer. after a good defrag (I recommend O&O Defrag 6) you will notice vast improvement in all of these area's.

Deleting cookies is really a security measure, every web site you visit leave behind markers on your pc that can be read at a later date, now most of these are harmless and help you surfing the internet, a small few are malicious, so I suggest deleting them daily but at least weekly, also visit https://www.microsoft.com and download WindowsXP Service Pack 2. This is a great windows update that provides a lot more security than windows has enabled by default. Also keep an update Antivirus and firewall running and you don't really have to worry to much about cookies. Unless you have visited web sites that you do not wish others to know about then delete your cookies, internet history files and temp files :-)

And hoovering you case keeps it clean and dust free (P.s. don't use a hoover though...very bad for static and has killed pc's before) Use a soft natural fibre brush and remove all dust. Dust also helps generate heat and short out components.

Hope this helps

Richard

trafalgar_2

I drop the temp files and cookies each day ::)
but the rest I leave to the 'expert' ;D

Allexie

Thanks Cathy (and son!) for going to all that trouble. Not sure that I dare open up the tower tho...it would feel a bit like performing major surgery...seem to remember reading somewhere you are supposed to wear an anti-static wristband when you go poking about inside the things....... ::)

Jolaaled

my son has dropped juice all over the keyboard and now it won't work at all!!! HELP!!!

Sarahsaver

Is there a quick and easy way of deleting cookies?

As for the juice, just stand the keyboard up on end for all the juice to drain out. Had a mobile phone ondce that got gravy in it, drained it out and it worled again.

New keyboards are cheap, ive seen them in the pound shop!