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maintenance wizard
Name: mikeyb Date: July 18, 2002 at 04:35:01 Pacific
Comment:
hi could someone advise me how often i should run 1.maint wizard 2.disk clean up 3.disk defrag 4.scan disk
Name: tombstone Date: July 18, 2002 at 06:22:34 Pacific
Reply:
Ask 10 people this and get 9 different answers,I run the maintenance Wizard Manually every morning,but first I run clean sweep, clean out the history folder,also *.tmp,check reg-clean,check add/remove pro for anything left over from an un-install,then empty the recycle bin, I like to do all these things manually but i'm retired so i have lots of time.Some say every week some say once a month is enough,you will get a lot of opinions on this.
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Response Number 2
Name: georges Date: July 18, 2002 at 06:24:58 Pacific
Reply:
You can run 2,3 by themselves and better not use any schedule.It is your PC usage that is the criterion. You can cleanup every week and defrag every month or two on average.
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