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How Often Do You 'Clean Up' Your PC?

The Exorcist

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This includes...

Hard Drive Defragmentation
Registry Cleanup/Defrag
Virus Scans
Organizing Files and Folders
Deleting old files

You get the idea.

I do anti-virus scans every 3 days (and Anti-spyware).
I clean up my registry (With TuneUp Utilites) every week.
I defrag my hard drives every 3-4 weeks.
I organize my files and folders daily.
 

Giraffes? Giraffes!

ラヴィ・ヘッド
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I use window washer every single day, and i mean every single day. It takes care of most things that you would need, i literally cleaned like 1 gigabyte one day. It's an amazing program :P But yeah, i clean it everyday after browsing the web...
 

Switchback

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I clean it pretty much almost everyday, CCleaner to clear up all the miscellaneous bits and defragment while I browse the internet or delete files from the Recycle Bin and clean up files to corresponding folders. It just really annoys me when I know there's clutter on my laptop.
 
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twocows

twocows

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I assume you mean on my Windows machines.
Deicide said:
Hard Drive Defragmentation
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Defraggler roughly once a week
Registry Cleanup
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Mostly harmless.
Virus Scans
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If something's acting odd or running slowly, I do a virus scan, or if I haven't done one in a few months.
Organizing Files and Folders
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Rarely, if ever. I use dir and wildcards and get results almost as fast as if I had that bloated indexer going. For instance, if I wanted to find a file and I only remembered that its name contained "two," I would type "dir /s *two*" and get relatively fast results.
Deleting old files
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Roughly every other week with CCleaner.
 

.little monster

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Hard Drive Defragmentation
- I have never once. I will probably start every now and then.
Registry Cleanup/Defrag
- Every couple of days.
Virus Scans
- Every night.
Organizing Files and Folders
- Right when I download.
Deleting old files
- Whenever I stop using them and realize.
 
Mr. X

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Run spy bot S&D once a week

Usually do complete reformat every four months.

I only delete stuff when im almost out of hdd space.

Defrag monthly
 

engage'

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I run virus/anti spyware checkers weekly. And I clean my desktop once a month. :S

But that's about all I do.
 

Eureka1

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Deicide said:
Hard Drive Defragmentation
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Never, not required of NTFS.

Deicide said:
Registry Cleanup/Defrag
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Never, as I don't uninstall things.

Deicide said:
Virus Scans
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I do not run anti virus.

Deicide said:
Organizing Files and Folders
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When it comes to stuff I've downloaded then yes, like anime and music into folder trees.

Deicide said:
Deleting old files
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Not often, usually only installers and disc images that I've just burned.
 

Black Ice

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I just wiped out everything a couple days ago because of some annoying trojans =| I only had like 5 gigs of space left anyways, I kinda needed to get rid of all my useless junk from a couple years ago.

Virus scans are every Saturday, done automatically.
 

Archer

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Eureka1 said:
[S-HIGHLIGHT]Never, not required of NTFS.[/S-HIGHLIGHT]

Never, as I don't uninstall things.

[S-HIGHLIGHT]I do not run anti virus.[/S-HIGHLIGHT]

When it comes to stuff I've downloaded then yes, like anime and music into folder trees.

Not often, usually only installers and disc images that I've just burned.
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The highlighted text confused me. If you're not running an AV, then I will assume you don't run Windows, so why are you using NTFS?

I rarely clean up. I put stuff where it needs to go when I save it and I do a fresh install of my OSs around every 6 months, so I copy what I want from a pre-format backup.
 

HarrisonH

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Archer said:
If you're not running an AV, then I will assume you don't run Windows, so why are you using NTFS?
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I run Windows, and my antivirus is my brain.

The only real thing I clean up is my desktop, and that's only after I get sick of seeing the icons on it. Every few months I'll run CCleaner.
 

Archer

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HarrisonH said:
I run Windows, and my antivirus is my brain.

The only real thing I clean up is my desktop, and that's only after I get sick of seeing the icons on it. Every few months I'll run CCleaner.
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Yeah, I'm not too sure how effective that will be, but it's worth running a standalone virus scanner every so often if you don't want the performance drop.
 
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