I just decided to give my hard drives a complete and thourough cleaning!

@sharone74 (4837)
United States
October 31, 2007 4:59am CST
Whew!I didn't realize how much crap I had lounging around on my hard drive. Keeping in mind that I download software constantly to my computer, I always run Add/Remove programs at least once every week or two. I have 247 installed programs on my hard drive. I am in the process of removing them but I started at 11pm and it is now 2:54 am and I am still not done. A lot of this stuff though, I know I never downloaded. Ever! I keep a list of downloaded software, expected use, install date and expiration of trial or uninstall dates. I wonder if the trojan that my anti virus software found yesterday morning has anything to do with these mystery software installations? How many installed programs are on your system? and when was the last time you defragged your system?? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM???????????? If you can't remember when it was, it is definitely time to do it again wouldn't u say?
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lilaclady
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
31 Oct 07
Yes I have a lot of crap on my computer as well, I don't defrag as often as I should, but my techy ran a program theough my computer a couple of weeks ago and picked up 180 tracers or something on my computer, that scared me a little...
sharone74
@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
31 Oct 07
download AVG free edition from www.download.com AVG is one of the best anti-virus software programs on the net, bar none!it will tell you definitively whether or not you have anything to worry about on your computer. It will also remove it.
suchand
@suchand (117)
• Australia
31 Oct 07
If you are looking for a good freeware cleanup suite for windows, probably you would like Ccleaner, with which you can clean all the temp files, caches and much more things. It also have a software un installation manager integrated, which can be used to cleanup unwanted softwares . www.ccleaner.com/download BTW a clean temp files, neat software management and regular defragmentation are the key to your system performance.