Signs that your computer needs a Spring Clean

Post by **Joose** » November 20th, 2004, 11:28

Sign 1: Your start menu no longer fits on the screen

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » November 20th, 2004, 11:48

Just work your way through everything and uninstall stuff you do not want.

Once this is done, I tend to reload Windows XP with SP2 over the top again, and then run Executive Software's Diskeeper, as the built in diskeeper is rubbish, and this should help things fly along.

Post by **Joose** » November 20th, 2004, 11:55

diskeeper? whats that do then?

/computer science graduate. They teach you nothing of use. Nothing!

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » November 20th, 2004, 16:32

Diskeeper is a disk defragmenter made by Executive Software, who are the people who made the original disk defragmenter before Windows took it on as their own.

Look for Diskeeper V7 or any other later version, and it's pretty simple.

Surely you must of ran a defrag before?

Basically, that's what diskeeper is, a better bit of sodtware for defragging your machine.

You should always run it after building a machine, or making any major file changes, such as installing/uninstalling large software.

If you still don't knwo what I'm talking about, just use the free diskeeper by right clicking my computer, then selecting manage, and it's one of the tools on the left.

Post by **Joose** » November 20th, 2004, 17:48

oh, defragging. Yeah, i knowwhat that is

ive never head of it being called diskeeping though. heh, you live and learn