How to maintain a healthy Windows System

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Nighthawk-F117

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very simple...

Format and reinstall every 6 months... and you are good to go!

How to maintain a healthy Windows system? That's simple. Do a clean install, turn off the computer and put it in the closet. Leave it there for however many years you wish it to remain healthy.

Yeh, thanks for the constructive comments....

Please just don't reply if you're going to say these kind of things.

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You assume too many things, like that the user knows what is OK and not OK in the task manager and knows where add/remove programs is. (FYI, the task manager is not always effective in showing rogue virus processes.) It's obvious to you I'm sure, but you have to think from their perspective.

There was no info for Win2k/98/ME users and the information about RAM upgrades was just poor. On the plus side, it was well organized and edited.

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You assume too many things, like that the user knows what is OK and not OK in the task manager and knows where add/remove programs is. (FYI, the task manager is not always effective in showing rogue virus processes.) It's obvious to you I'm sure, but you have to think from their perspective.

There was no info for Win2k/98/ME users and the information about RAM upgrades was just poor. On the plus side, it was well organized and edited.

Thanks for the criticism.

I'll take the first paragraph into account, although I do not feel that I should write about Win2k/98/ME when i have little to no experience with these operating systems.

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although I do not feel that I should write about Win2k/98/ME when i have little to no experience with these operating systems.

Taking that into account you should rename the guide "How to maintain a health Windows XP system".

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Nighthawk-F117

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Most important thing is missing. It should be in basic solutions:

DON'T USE XP AS ADMIN. Use "limited" user account.

Why isn't that there? How many of you run as "user"? Everyone should do that. I do.

Even I don't do that :p And I'm a little paranoid.

I just use the default account in windows, of course, with the name changed.

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DON'T USE XP AS ADMIN. Use "limited" user account.

I had considered doing that, but time after time I read about vulnerabilities that can trash the system, admin privledges or not, so while this is does increase protection slightly, one might as well adopt a strict policy of keeping the system patched.

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"Even I don't do that And I'm a little paranoid."

Congratulations! Worst argument ever.

So you don't mind if something trashes your Windows?

Gets even worse:

" I read about vulnerabilities that can trash the system, admin privledges or not,"

I read about someone who has alien implant in his ass. So you don't keep your OS patched?

"so while this is does increase protection slightly"

Slightly? Do you even understand what it means to be admin?

No wonder that people have problems with Windows when those who write instructions for them are like you two.

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Gets even worse:

" I read about vulnerabilities that can trash the system, admin privledges or not,"

I read about someone who has alien implant in his ass. So you don't keep your OS patched?

That is a total misinterpretation of our statements which, combined with your overall hostility, makes you seem like an ass. I do keep my OS patched, which is why I don't bother to run as a restricted user.

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What the hell is your point? Trying to make people run as admin?

This thread is called "How to maintain a healthy Windows System"

Running as user is half-million times wiser than running as admin.

"Running as a user just doens't do enough to stop malware from taking over."

If it isn't enough then what is? Running as admin and scanning with some ****ware tool?

Just stop spamming that anti-user thing, it is far more secure compared to admin and you can't deny that.

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For those who'd like to forget their admin account:

http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...n/luawinxp.mspx

What about registry cleaners?:

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/r...ct-of-life.html

Look down the page about half way what Mark Russinovich thinks about junk in registry and it's impacts.

"even if the registry was massively bloated there would be little impact on the performance of anything other than exhaustive searches"

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