What do you do to keep your PC running great?

[Faubio Alter]

Myself, I do temporary file folder (junk files) cleaning daily and do daily defragmentations. Every three days or so I clean out the browser. Weekly I do a check disk, disk check of my hard drive  Daily I do a quick scan for viruses and weekly a full scan for viruses and malware. I use McAfee site advisor to keep malware off my PC.  I am a heavy user (10+ hours per day) of the Net and SL.

This link is helpful for Windows OSs:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/optimize.aspx#1

[Faubio Alter]

Let me spell it out for you. Stop using the word "retard". This is a public forum were you never know whom might be watching. Those with mentally retarded children and siblings might not appreciate it. Got it?

How old are you? You need to be 18 years of age to become an SL member.

[Ansariel Hiller]

You already amused me better. Oh, please don't tell me what to do. How do you say? "It's none of your business!" Thank you!

[Ansariel Hiller]

Try turning off virtual memory completely. You will see what happens - or not! You're education initiatives are really funny.

[Faubio Alter]

You responded to "my " comment, remember? Your badgaring me again. Stop your negative attacked on my comments. I am here to help others, that is all.

[Daria Afterthought]

Faubio.Alter wrote:

Hmm are you a retard, as you say? Well ................ I'm not sure but you are rude. By the way, some might take offense at the word "retard", it is rude slang but then that would require some sensitivity to other people a trait the rude lac.

Thats retarded, emo kid.

[Ansariel Hiller]

ROFL!

[Eternus Soulstar]

Ansariel.Hiller wrote:

 

Try turning off virtual memory completely. You will see what happens - or not! You're education initiatives are really funny.

 

i did that on my system and i only have 2 GB of ram.  it limits a little how much stuff i can run but i never really need or want to run enough stuff to need a pagefile, i prefer the performance of what is running being better, than having more stuff running. and even with no pagefile i can still have four concurrent logins if i want to.

[Lia Abbot]

Always make sure you have a decent and up-to-date antivirus running (I use Trend Micro). DON'T go for those awful commercials on the TV where grinning idiots tell you their Windows is working wonderfully after using the advertised software, they are a rip-off. (In fact, if you look closely, most of them are sitting in front of MACs. LOL.)

[Ansariel Hiller]

Ain't you supposed to have a Linux system?

[Eternus Soulstar]

Ansariel.Hiller wrote:

 

Ain't you supposed to have a Linux system?

 

i just have a system.   several flavors of Linux multibootable alongside my XP.  mandriva 2010, openSuSE 11.2, Chakra, and a testbed partition that i just toss anything on to play with as the mood strikes.  and each Linux runs XP in a VirtualBox while i am in Linux.  where amusingly enough it usually runs better than it does when i boot to it natively.

i'm thinking of giving OpenSolaris a try.

[Femke Peccable]

Hoi,

I made a mistake i have Intel® Core™ i7 920XM 2.0GHz (3.2GHz Turbo Mode, 8MB Cache.

The hard disks are 2TB Raid 0 (2x  1TB  7,200RPM HDDs) SATA.

http://www.alienware.com/

Femke

[Faubio Alter]

Do you think the RAID is giving you the high HD score?

[Peggy Paperdoll]

All this Windows Experience score or indexing helps to keep computer running great longer.........right?

 

Aside from putting faster RAM in my machine (which I ain't gonna do) is there a way for me get my score up to perfect?  I mean every other component area is 5.9 (as hight a score as I can get with this Vista machine) except that one 5.4 score..........if I can get that up my computer will keep running great for longer.  Is that how that scoring system helps me?

 

[Ansariel Hiller]

/me nods because there is a positive correlation between how long fast your's is and how stable it runs...

[Faubio Alter]

http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/index.aspx

Run the scan, post the results here:

The score system indicated if you understand PC performance.

If you've been using that RAM awhile it might have bad sectors in it. Do the mem test.

More then likely that RAM or new RAM would not transfer to a new PC, btw.

[Faubio Alter]

stable = mismatched hardware. Ooops!

[Peggy Paperdoll]

I understand computer performance just fine.  I also know exactly what the Windows Experience thing is about.........and what it was designed for.  It was not put there to measure how good your system is or how powerful you system is......it offers no insight into what anyone needs or might want to do to improve that score.  It is to give some broad prediction about how well your system will run an equally broad range of computer software..........sort of like a numbering system to use in place of a "do I meet the minium system requirements" to run a software package.  MS dumbing down a way to let the average Joe User know if he can run that software he's got his eye at Best Buy.

 

So, tell me again how these scores make (and keep) my computer running great, longer.  It's your thread...........so take it any direction you want.  If it's about Windows Experience Scores then I've offered all I can to help you out.

 

[Faubio Alter]

Answer is >>>>>>>>>>>  It was not put there to measure how good your system is or how powerful you system is. Yep!

Sure it does, your RAM is weak isn't it? So you get new RAM or live with it. Simples.

That software they speak about on the performance information and tools window is the questionable part. Software can only go so far then you have too up grade hardware. (Note: No matter how good your PC if your connection is bad then you'll have a fair to poor performing PC, period.)

You might want to look at those scores next time you go PC shopping.

[Peggy Paperdoll]

Naaaaw............think I will take a look at the performance stats for the different hardware devices I want in my next computer.  Those Windows Experience Scores will take care of themselves.  I knew ahead of time my RAM was not the fastest available for DDR2 ram........my speed is 333mhz (sort of near the bottom).  But I also knew it was good enough for my anticipated needs.....beats the hell out of any PC3200 chips anyway.

 

Performance of any system depends on the installed devices.........not a score.  Microsoft was hoping the software people would pick up on those scores to list in their minimum requirement specs.  Some have, most have not.  So now those scores are mostly useless..........except for folks like you who like bragging on their score.  It's cool............no problems with that.  Just don't try to tell me that they help in maintaining my system's ability to keep running grreat.  My experience score has remained were it is since I installed my old nVidia 8600GT card the day I purchased this machine (my video card is now upgraded to a 9800GTX+).  Beyond that initial test that score hasn't helped me one bit.  I got a near perfect score........and I have $4.69.  Going to go to Starbucks with that bit of information........wooo wooo, that score sure gets me a great deal, doncha know. 

[Faubio Alter]

except for folks like you who like bragging on their score.

LOL my scores suck. This is a crappy Compaq PC hehehehehe. It will need lots of work before I get bragging rights. 

My DSL is 756 kbs/sec so anything better would be a waste.

[Ansariel Hiller]

Here, 768 kb/s (what's 756 kbs/sec?) doesn't even count as broadband Internet...

[Macie Bing]

Thanks!  I added Microsoft At Home to favorites.  Something else Ive found helpful is updating drivers once in awhile and checking for new viewers in SL.

[ZenWarrior Fuosing]

Faubio Alter said:  Bad idea, leave services alone but do delay some if your using Vista or 7. 

The first thing I do is turn off all useless services.  It's only a bad idea if you don't know what you're doing.  It's a great idea if you do.  (And even BlackViper isn't right about some of them being needed.)

[Femke Peccable]

Hoi,

No the raid does not give my high score in the win index.

It's a wrong interpretation of the index because everything is running in the high speed memory.

I discovered that when I was editing a movie and wanted to shut it down quick and lost all my work because it was still in memory.

The raid is just there officially as direct backup.

[Claireschen Hesten]

i've never understood the hype over Mac's its getting on 10years since i last ventured near a Mac wasn't a pleasant experience. theres not much i do to keep my xp system running ok regular anti-virus scans the one i use does automatic idle time full system scans and quick scans so i don't have to bother tell it to, daily disk clean to free up some space, weekly spyware clean & Malware clean (malwarebytes anti-malware is good) and occasional disk defrag and back-up to external hdd and/or deletion of un-needed files

always do a virus scan on new downloads i've seen some recommendations of comodo all it did was infect my machine witth viruses