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New PC. What preventative stuff will I do now?

  • 09-04-2009 9:15am
    #1
    nazoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 330 ✭✭


    I'm getting a new PC today. I'm looking a couple of years down the line and there'll be a large amount of bits of applications left (ones I'll have installed and deleted). There'll be a heap of junk in the registry and in hidden files and it'll be blamed for slowing things down.

    What steps can I take now to make life easier down the line?


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  • #2
    death1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭death1234567


    nazoil wrote: »
    I'm getting a new PC today. I'm looking a couple of years down the line and there'll be a large amount of bits of applications left (ones I'll have installed and deleted). There'll be a heap of junk in the registry and in hidden files and it'll be blamed for slowing things down.

    What steps can I take now to make life easier down the line?
    Download CCleaner from Download.com and run it every now and then.
    EDIT: Its free.


  • #3
    nazoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 330 ✭✭nazoil


    I've used CC before and it gets rid of stuff okay.

    Do you know the way some nrowsing & programs leave application data and logs and stuff hidden God knows where.

    If I took a backup of the hard drive now and did a restore of that say in a years time would everything in the interim be removed? I'd envisage that when I'd be doing the clean up I'd temporarily remove whatever useful programs / data I've added since new, then do the restore and reinstall the useful stuff. Is this the way it works?

    If there is say 10 GB of hard drive used now, does this mean I have to have 10 GB of back up storage media like a number of DVDs?


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