![]() Spinning-platter hard drives are defragged nightly To remove bogus Registry entries, junk files and cookies he uses Piriform’s CCleaner and/or Macecraft’s free PowerTools’ Lite every day.įor "a deeper, more controlled cleaning" he uses Macecraft’s jv16 PowerTools ![]() Secunia PSI keeps the "most important software up to date and free of known security issues" (he didn't say how he updates the un-important software). This is Langa's ongoing care and feeding routine for his Windows machine:Ĭonstantly running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (to catch what the antivirus software misses)įrom "time to time" he runs still more antivirus software (ESET’s Online Scanner, Microsoft’s Safety Scanner and Trend Micro’s House Call) If the tune-up software being tested found problems (and they all found hundreds, but that's another story) it said more about the software than the computer. He detailed his routine to make it clear that there shouldn't be any problems on his computer. I wasn't so much interested in the results of Langa's software testing as the description of how he maintains his Windows computer. But, to someone willing to think out of the box, to see the forest rather than just trees, its an eye-opener to how crude and rickety Windows is. Fred Langa is a Windows guy and his article is well done and useful - to Windows users.
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