Posted by: kurtsh | April 21, 2010

INFO: Lifehacker – “Windows Maintenance Tips – The Good, Bad, and Useless”

imageLifehacker published a great article that goes over what they believe to be the good, bad, and useless techniques for maintaining Windows. 

Particularly interesting about this is their usage of a “Gartner-ian” like 4 quadrant chart that depicts what are actually good and bad ideas relative to what conventional wisdom says “seems to be good” or “seems to be bad” ideas.

This is a pretty long article.  Reviewed topics include:

  • Sleeping/Hibernating Instead of Shutting Down
  • Microsoft Security Essentials
  • Not having Windows "Ultimate
  • Not having "Admin" access
  • Automating backup to external drive
  • Automating backup to a web location
  • Install more RAM
  • Physically clean your system and peripherals
  • Automating maintenance tools
  • Using Revo Uninstaller
  • Disabling QoS in Windows XP
  • Running defragment apps
  • Loading Internet Explorer with add-ons
  • Loading Internet Explorer with add-ons
  • RAM/memory optimizers
  • "Trick" Vista into multi-core booting
  • Enable SuperFetch in XP
  • Clean out Windows prefetching
  • Reinstall Windows regularly
  • Registry "Cleaning"
  • Disable Shadow Copy or System Restore
  • Disable unneeded services
  • Installing lots of alpha apps
  • Type rm -rf / in Cygwin
  • "Would you like to install the X toolbar to make searching easier?"
  • Drinking while Registry editing
  • Uninstalling apps you don’t recognize
  • Installing software from unverified torrents
  • Installing software from .ru sites
  • Skipping updates from Adobe or Java

LINK:  Lifehacker – “Windows Maintenance Tips – The Good, Bad, and Useless”
http://lifehacker.com/5520447/windows-maintenance-tips-the-good-bad-and-useless

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