bikerangel3
Middle Village, NY
age: 54
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Evening Mike , Bikerangel3 here. If you can get into yoer control panel and reset the start up with a date before the virus infected it. This has worked for me and best of all its free!!!  
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dg1260
Galion, OH
age: 47
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Add on programs I would recommend:
Either use MSCONFIG (typed at the command prompt) or better still STARTUP from mlin.net
ANTIVIR from AVIRA, has less overhead than AVG and seems to be as effective.
CCLEANER Little known problem is if the registry gets too big you will not be able to boot. Though this is better on XP and above, 2000 had a real problem with this. CCLEANER will clean the registry as well as spyware and temp garbage.
Of course I use Mozilla FireFox instead of IE since it's less prone to problems.
Ultimate Boot Disc for Windows in case you ever get into a real problem or a virus that won't let you boot. It will allow you to recover files or in my case, remove a virus program that none of the antivirus software would.
I am examining a couple of others but I won't recommend them just yet.
I keep things extremely clean and run little in the background. Currently all machines have 1GB of RAM or greater. All processors are 2GHZ or greater.
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winesong
Bend, OR
age: 60
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I USE *CRAP CLEANER*... AND *CLEAN UP*..EVERY week OR SO...
I love the little programs that are free, and useful.
Wine
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jaxflorida
Jacksonville, FL
age: 54
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Norton Utilities will mess up your system. There's a difference between anti-virus programs and utilities programs no matter who makes them. Utility programs want to take over everything and I refuse to use them. I'm not talking about spyware removal programs or others have mentioned before me. You mentioned "utilities" and I think that's different.
I suggest using your windows programs for maintanance. Do a disk clean-up first and check off things you want done. Then do the defrag. These things should be found in your start-programs-accessories-systems tools. Depending on your operating system it should be similar to this. Just my opinion.
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robot690
Las Cruces, NM
age: 22
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Yo has anyone on here used coolmon? I'm using it and seem to like it it tells me EVERYTHING about my PC and its configurable. Also using CCleaner, Asuslogics defragmenter, and registry cleaner for them as well. CCleaner is what I use to keep the startup clean. Also using free ram xp pro. I also dump the recycle bin and run disk cleanup every day. Using threatfire for virus protection (highly recommended btw)anything else I can do to keep this beast clean??
machine is a laptop
7200RPM 100GB harddrive
2.2GHZ intel core2 duo
2GB RAM
nvidia 8800GTM (probably not needed for the post but come on its tight)
[Edited 3/11/2008 11:55:31 PM]
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