PC maintenance

[Avenger]

Nothing wrong with a bit of general maintenance - check for latest drivers, clean your mouse / keyboard / desk, and in my case make sure I set my alarm early for the morning

[Sweet Pea]

im defragging my rip off hybrid ssd drive and about to go out and buy a regular ssd.

[nick1288]

I'm not trying to troll advertising but I use Advanced SystemCare by Iobit. I'm just a casual gamer and my wife uses the computer to surf the web/download music. It's fantastic at cleaning up and optimizing your computer. Free version even cleans your memory and registry. Won't be very useful to serious gamers who already have their stuff locked down but for casual people after your pc gets tuned the scan/fix process takes less than three min and made a difference for me!

[bartoni33]

im defragging my rip off hybrid ssd drive and about to go out and buy a regular ssd.

DO NOT DEFRAG SSD! REPEAT, DO NOT DEFRAG SSD!

Unless you are defraging it to ruin it so you can get a refund for the new one I guess.

[Eiryn]

Any advice on a good registry and/or overall pc cleaner/fixer? Mine got fuxed a while ago and my decently built pc now runs like molasses. Free would rock, but also willing to pay if it is good. Thanks for any advice!

[Far_Too_Jones]

Any advice on a good registry and/or overall pc cleaner/fixer? Mine got fuxed a while ago and my decently built pc now runs like molasses. Free would rock, but also willing to pay if it is good. Thanks for any advice!

i've used ccleaner for years without any problems.

[WarMachine]

wat

some of this advice is really bad and can harm your pc, even if you are tech savvy.

there's is nothing arrogant about my warnings. i've been building my own PCs for 6 years, taking apart and upgrading pc's since the early 90s. tweaking windows for optimal performance in games as needed since dos 6.0/win3.11.

OP is half baked and could be considered malicious by some people.

dirtyklingon is 100% correct. The OP has listed stuff that casual computer owners should not engage in. For instance, cleaning your hardware, most people don't know they need to discharge and ground their PC, or use static mats, as that little static energy you build up walking across their carpet can fry all kinds of parts in a PC.

I end up having to fix 5 to 10 PCs a year just do to "simple" R&R that people don't know how to properly perform, usually told to by someone on forums like this. As I showed above even the easiest tasks can harm your computer, a user should never do anything they don't know how to do right. Although the vocal few here build their own PC, a lot more just buy them from big box companies and don't know how to do most of whats on the OPs list.

[bartoni33]

i've used ccleaner for years without any problems.

I second this opinion.

[Eiryn]

cool, thanks

[Sydone]

dirtyklingon is 100% correct. The OP has listed stuff that casual computer owners should not engage in. For instance, cleaning your hardware, most people don't know they need to discharge and ground their PC, or use static mats, as that little static energy you build up walking across their carpet can fry all kinds of parts in a PC.

I end up having to fix 5 to 10 PCs a year just do to "simple" R&R that people don't know how to properly perform, usually told to by someone on forums like this. As I showed above even the easiest tasks can harm your computer, a user should never do anything they don't know how to do right. Although the vocal few here build their own PC, a lot more just buy them from big box companies and don't know how to do most of whats on the OPs list.

But if people have no idea what the OP is talking about, then common sence dictates that they just dont do it, hopefully, and thoes select few who then do without knowledge then their loss, if OP wrote that people should jumb from a bridge to get warmed up before the gates open, then im sure people wouldn't. I know not all humans posses common sence.