Tydda Jon - Slough
jon.tydda at lonza.com
Fri Jun 5 02:59:47 CDT 2009
Only from the Boat Race, never been there myself :-) On my memory stick I have the following: Process Explorer Startup.exe (similar to autoruns, but a much nicer interface) Vipre (very good antivirus and antispyware) Zonealarm (Free version of the firewall) Trojan Hunter (good for rooting out those little nasties that traditional AV's don't find) XP SP2 XP SP3 Vista SP1 Office 2003 SP3 IE7 IE8 Windows Installer 3.1 I used to have Stinger, Ad-Aware and Spybot, but I've found over the last 6 months that I just don't need them any more, since I installed Vipre, it's THAT good. Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:02 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Disk Hogging Yeah, do that. It would be nice to see the programs you use. Thanks Grew up in Putney - know it? Max -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: 04 June 2009 21:40 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Disk Hogging I'm in NW London, that's just that bit too far to do in a day. I can give you a list of things that I keep on my stick if you like? Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo Sent: 04 June 2009 17:41 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Disk Hogging Shame you're not nearer to Derby, Jon. Max -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tydda Jon - Slough Sent: 04 June 2009 17:16 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Disk Hogging Just to echo what John says, these are great troubleshooting tools, I've used them a lot (in my current job and my last one), and they're on my memory stick of things to fix broken systems. Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 5:10 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Disk Hogging The AutoRuns list is eye opening isn't it? Go to the options menu and check hide Windows Entries. Click Refresh (F5). That removes most of it from the list. The Logon tab is what is most user friendly. With Windows entries turned off you can uncheck most any item and it will not cause problems. Most of those are auto update features for add-ins, system tray icons programs and such. The other items can be checked for trace items that you know you don't need because you unistalled something. For instance Norton products leave behind a number of services and drivers. You can uncheck these and restart if nothing barks (it won't) at you then delete them. Once deleted, run CCleaner and it will remove a whole slew of crap (CCleaner stands for Crap Cleaner) that was left behind on disk and in registry because of those entries. The previously mentioned tabs and WinLogon are tabs to look through for items entered by malware. If you adjust what you see in Process Explorer (via the View Menu) it is also very eye-opening. How much memory is that simple "little" free utility using? Also handy for checking on how much memory all of the processes of a security application is using - min/max/ave. And when you kill a process there it will not sit around and decide if it wants to comply, it dies-pronto! SysInternals also has many other utilities like this - all free - file monitoring would be another useful one for the original purpose of this thread. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com This communication and its attachments, if any, may contain confidential and privileged information the use of which by other persons or entities than the intended recipient is prohibited. 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