Al's Guide to cleaning up your Windows computer

[lost1]

I was asked recently by a friend to help her clean up / speed up her computer. (Actually, I'm asked to do this by about half a dozen people daily at work, but that's besides the point.)

Rather than writing it out in an email, I thought perhaps a publicly accessible LJ post would be more useful.

Before You StartYou will need some little software

Comments

[biscuitpig]

Why how timely, Al! Thank you.

[lost1]

Anytime. :)

[tarq]

TL:DR

P.S. My cupholder is broke

[lost1]

TL?

[tarq]

You work at Google, but can't work a Google?

Too Long : Didn't Read

[lost1]

Sorry, it never occured to me that a searchable acronym I've never seen or heard of before would have a colon in it. I thought you were comparing "TL" something to Digital River.

[tellumo]

Oh, awesome. I knew about almost all of that (I think Windows system administration is largely a problem of recognizing when you have something malicious and not using it), but that autoruns thing was a new one on me, and it made my life much easier.

You get a gold star!