What is your Cleaning Schedule? Part 3

Posted on October 31, 2007
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Computer Tips, Tricks, Tweaks and Tutorials - What is your Cleaning Schedule? Part 3

You can divide a Windows Cleaning Schedule in three parts/schedules that are all measured by how you use your system. Maybe you can say four since you also have your daily tasks.

The first is the basic one this is usually a weekly schedule which is performed automatically and covers all the basics.
The second is also (mostly) automated one and is most of the time a monthly schedule.
And the third is a manual one that you’ll need to do yourself.

The basic schedule is needed for tasks like emptying your recycle bin, cleaning up your web cache, deleting cookies, creating backups and deleting temporary files.

The second schedule is needed for things like cleaning up your root directory and defragmenting your hard disks.

The third is a manual one for cleaning up unused programs, unused icons and programs from your desktop and deleting old e-mails.

Creating a Cleaning Schedule.

Is there a best schedule or an ideal schedule? Well there is but this is different for every user and every operating system that you are using.

For an example ill show you my situation. I’m a Problogger and I work at home on our Blog Network. My girl studies at a local University Communication, MultiMedia and Design and she is currently taking an extra semester in Digital Media Productions. You can imagine that we use computers day and night and that’s indeed the case. We probable have too many systems at our house. We have 2 computers that I’m constantly working on, My girl has two Laptops, we have two Media Centre’s, a couple of older spare pc’s that we sometimes use and we have one with Windows Server 2003 on it. I know it’s ridiculous but we can’t live with out them;).

My girl uses two laptops, one to bring to school and one for at home. The one at home is more used than the one for school. The one for school is much smaller and lighter and is mostly used to work with Microsoft Office. The one at home gets new software on it quite frequently, is used much more for the Internet and she also uses this one to work on her blogs. Her “at home” laptop as well as my computers that I work on 24/7, need much heavier maintenance than the Media Centre’s or the older pc’s that we rarely use. The older pc’s and Media Centre’s only get an automated schedule, we rarely do this manually. We have much more things to do than spend our time cleaning systems that we hardly use and I think you do to.

In the next articles I’m describing how to use these schedules but you realize now how important it is to determine first the correct maintenance and cleaning schedule.

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