Yeah you can just use Windows Defrag. It’s just personal preference for me to use O&O.
Is it important to defrag regularly? I almost never do it.
How’s Bazooka mastermind? Never heard of it, usually I run Adaware, Spy Doctor, and Spy Sweeper.
is SpyBot: S&D any better to those spywares you’ve mentioned earlier? actually that’s what i’m using at the moment.
To be honest, unless you download shit like a complete fiend, defragging every day is fairly unnecessary. Even doing it weekly seems like a bit much to me. Then again, I basically don’t download anything so my system rarely needs it. At any rate, defragging constantly can also be rough on your HDD, so I would say that once a month is fine for most systems.
As far as running security scanners, I agree with mastermind that doing it regularly once a week is a good idea. On Fridays I normally run my spyware cleaners (Spybot S&D, Windows Defender, Windows MRT, Ad-Aware) when I get up in the morning and then I start my antivirus (Symantec) running before I head off to class. Even if I’m not experiencing anything wrong with my machine, it’s worth it to be safe and catch anything as early as possible.
I like having more than one Spyware scanner on my machine. One picks up what the others don’t.
Hm, I think I’ll download Windows Defender later or tomorrow.
mastermine knows his stuff, I second this, too. Spybot is a great program, but it’s not going to catch everything. While running several different antivirus programs with realtime protection at once can cause problems, there is no harm in having multiple spyware scanners on your machine. I run four different ones.
How many of them do you guys keep active in the task tray? I keep two spyware, one AV, and one firewall right now.
I keep none. I’m not stupid enough to get infected in the first place. But I do a copy of AVG on my HD and use its shell extension to scan potentially infected executables. They are annoying anyway and slows my pc down.
I usually keep Symantec, Windows Defender, and Comodo Firewall active.
sorry 'bout that. i didn’t noticed it and no harm intended.
My first top cd drive always opens after I close it. It gets really annoying so I eventually have to hold it in for a while so it closes.Why?
Sounds like one of my old pcs. Except it always closes after I open it. First I thought its probably because something was stuck inside and took it apart but had no luck. Its probably age? I perfected my quick cd insertion techniqe with it ^_^. Well…get a brand new dvd burner and you’d pay less than what you paid for your cd rom back then you bought it.
How many people here actually use Deep Freeze or Steady State? Is it worth having?
Ok, I need help networking one cable modem and 2 routers, all wired and they need to be hooked up to 3 360’s and 3 computers. one of the routers is a Linksys model: NR041 and the other is a Linksys model: BEFSR41. We tried to install the drivers and disks but nothing helped.
Power Defragmenter with Contig is many, many times faster than Windows defrag.
And btwi, you don’t really need any security software if you update regularly and don’t do stupid shit like opening email attachments or running dodgy keygens etc. Being careful is far more effective than anything else. I run a software firewall only, not even an anti virus any more, apart from a static online scan about once every 6 months… and rootkit revealer maybe once a year. Haven’t been infected with anything in years.
lol…why did you get 2 routers? get a 7 port switch and connect it directly to your modem along with all the computers.
All of the sites I service are LAN-cafe type areas with public computers. I use SteadyState on ALL of them and my trouble calls regarding the machines have reduced to hardware-only failures. Why? Because a reboot will revert a PC back to the initial state I have it set at. I’ve been having a lot of trouble at my sites with pr0n, spyware, viruses, pr0n, etc., so it’s definitely peace of mind when a reboot will clear everything saved after a previously set point. It’s nice not having to hear trouble calls at my helpdesk that start with “someone put a picture of a giant penis as the wallpaper on this machine! can you fix it?” hahah
Helps protect the customers I service, too. Since resetting now clears out cookies, auto-completed forms, credit card numbers, etc. Something that CCleaner couldn’t actually do as effectively as I needed it to.
I should set this bad boy up on my laptop tomorrow. So you’re saying if a pc’s infected with trojans, spyware, viruses, and other harmful things, SteadyState is able to revert back to the condition before there was none of that? If so, that sounds amazing. What happens with downloads though?
keep 'em at other drives.
what i did with mine was, i partitioned my hd’s with drive c:/ just have enough memory for my OS and apps. and just leave enough memory space for the cache file for the winsteadystate.
then i just save my files to another drive [eg. drive d:/]