Let’s face it, we all need little reminders now and again to clean up our laptops, make sure backups are running, update security software, etc.
Today I cleaned up my laptop cause, even though it’s only 3 months old, it was getting laggy on startup.
I did the following:
- Removed 33 useless apps
- Uninstalled Adeona (while cool, it eats up almost 1GB of RAM)
- Removed 12 apps that were starting on startup
- Set 8 Services to Manual
- Redid TweakXP
- Disc cleanup
- Defrag
Net impact was a savings of at least 2-3 minutes (maybe 5-7) between “push the button” and “ready to work”.
Plus, the lappy is now snappy. Processors are averaging 3% usage (vs 12%), RAM is at 30% (vs 50%). And everything’s flying.
So do your lappy a service and clean it up! I saved 40GB of disk space and hours of time per month in startups. You can too!
October 31st, 2008 at 7:18 am
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