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| Thread ID: 28084 | 2002-12-10 09:24:00 | Spring Cleaning... | tones_malones (611) | Press F1 |
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| 104814 | 2002-12-10 09:24:00 | hey guys, its that time of year...haha what am i talking about? anyhow, the ole' computer. running windows 98 needs a good ole' clean. Its riddled with spyware and not a virus scanner to be seen (its not my puter btw). Can anyone recomend any freeware that could rectify (my new word:P) these problems, im about to install AVG (its brilliant) and SpyBot & Ad Aware. I've cleaned out the temp files by using the faq - safemode, dos, del tree styles. Are there any suggestions? Much appreciated, the always gratefull for the wonderful PressF1 buddies... Tones Malones |
tones_malones (611) | ||
| 104815 | 2002-12-10 09:37:00 | clean out the index.dats, check the BHO's, regcleaner comes in handy for cleaning out leftover reg entries. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 104816 | 2002-12-10 09:40:00 | yep done the bho's with bhodeamon on the imag cd :) index.dat's deleted when del tempor~1, is that right? Tones |
tones_malones (611) | ||
| 104817 | 2002-12-10 19:15:00 | Gidday, toniscleaner works pretty well at cleaning all the bits and pieces like registry etc, etc. Its a freebee, a search in google will give the site for downloading. cheers, Bob |
Bob Kehely (621) | ||
| 104818 | 2002-12-10 19:50:00 | I use jv16 PowerTools from, www.vtoy.fi which seems to do the job OK and MRU blaster from, www.wilderssecurity.com does that job. cashesentry gets some internet page faults, at, www.mindspring.com does something good, diskeeper is very quick at defragging, from www.diskeeper.com all freeware |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 104819 | 2002-12-10 19:55:00 | Why not just backup all the data and give it a good ol' reformat and reinstall? I was amazed at how quick my old girl skipped along after one of those. And while you are at it, a good clean under the cover would be appreciated as well. They get pretty grubby in there quite quickly. :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 104820 | 2002-12-10 20:43:00 | > Why not just backup all the data and give it a good > ol' reformat and reinstall? quicker to give it a sping clean. i don't format unless i really have to. just be a little carefull with jv16 as it still is a little buggy. cachesentry is really good for those who still use IE. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 104821 | 2002-12-10 22:32:00 | hmmmm I couldn't say I do any "spring cleaning" I just try to keep it all nice and working all the time. Just open it up and give it a vacuum every now and again. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 104822 | 2002-12-10 22:40:00 | > > Just open it up and give it a vacuum every now and > again. Now and again? I have my case open heaps! usually to muck around with hardware though, but it keeps it clean.. no need for a vacuum cleaner! |
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