[dba-Tech] clean up

[Dan Waters]

Hi Susan,

Make sure you have sufficient hard drive space for the updates before that
gets started.
1) Download a free program named TreeSize (free version).  You can use this
to show a sort of all the folders on your drive in order of size.  This
gives you an idea of what might be taking up all your hard drive space, and
where it makes sense to look first.

2) If you're using a hard drive you can defrag it.  If it's an SSD then
don't.  An SSD would be 2 - 3 times faster than a hard drive.
3) Clean the registry if you haven't for a while.
4) Download a copy of CCleaner.  This has a number of good utilities
(including registry cleaning).  My favorite is that you can set this to run
every time you turn on the PC so that CCleaner will remove all the junk that
you've collected (especially cookies). (you can whitelist certain locations
if you want)

BOL!
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Susan Harkins
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 7:34 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] clean up

I have a Dell book that almost can't load web pages anymore - it's just
terminally slow. I guess it needs a tune up or something. L It's running
Vipre and I use Malwarebytes on it occasionally. I don't know what version
of IE it's using and that might be the problem. It's Windows 7 and it might
be set to not update automatically and the dh uses it, not me, so he never
updates anything. I'm going to run through all the updates and go from
there. Beyond that, any suggestions? 

 

Susan H. 

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