Ugh...

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Got a machine in that was running "a little slow"
13 GB HD, 500 MB free, 3.5 GB in \windows\temp, and more fragmented than the Genesis probe.
Not to mention it was buried in a nest of dust bunnies...with big pointy teeth!

Been defragging on a Diskeeper workstation for 3 hours now. It just hit 25%.

I wonder if these people change the oil in their cars. I'm amazed they haven't left Engine Bits™ in our parking lot.

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[glenathon.livejournal.com]

*more fragmented than the Genesis probe.*

Heheh...nice.

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm Well all the major car manufacturers have maint schedules. "every 3k miles bring it in for an oil change every 7,500 miles bring it in for an inspection every 15k miles be prepared to shell out 700 bucks for us to look at your fluids" ;-)

Maybe computer manufacturers should start doing something like that. "Every 50 hours bring the PC in for inspection if you fall under the severe maintenance schedule (On the internet a lot and downloading everything under the sun) every 75 hours if you fall under the light maint schedule"

How different is it from people either not knowing how to, not having a place to or not knowing how to do their own car maintenance and instead opting to pay a dealership to do the routine maintenance?

*shrugs* Random thought from me that this post generated.

[achernow.livejournal.com]

There'd need to be some sort of Odometer type thing on the computer then...

-A

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

Plus a "Check HD" light

There is....

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

There used to be a feature in win9x called maintenance wizard that would schedule scandisk, defrag, temp cleanup, etc... that feature seems to have been removed in XP. I use Diskeeper to do defag nightly.

Also, a computer can take care of itself as far as Antivirus defs, Windows Updates, etc... As long as the lusers let it.

Re: There is....

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

True though most don't or don't know how to turn all that stuff on, or just do something stupid and end up asking a "pro" anyway ;-)

Re: There is....

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

"Oh, windows updates? I turn those off. They're not important, are they?"

"And anti virus? I have norton 2002, shouldn't that work?"