Weekly Maintenance Programs

Will someone tell me what weekly maintenance i should run on my pc. ive had probs in the past and lost a lot of stuff.... i would be grateful if you could give me a list of proggies i should have to do my weekly maintenance on my pc.
Thanx in advance

 

hopefully my systems info is below, ive got Norton Internet Security, and Norton Anti Virus, along with Norton System works, and Adware
O/S xp pro sp1
256 DDRAM
AMD athlon xp 1700
Geforce 2 MX400
(i think)

 

could you also tell me how to add my specs to each of my posts so i dont have to keep typing them out each time?

 

Backup (couple times a week)
Defrag, chkdsk
AV scan
Dump recycle bin, temp, TIF and index.dat files
Ad-aware, Spybot, et al. update/scan
Clean/compact registry

 

back up? everything? to cd?
and wot do i use to clean/compact registry?
Thanx

 

Nick, you can put your specs in your sig: User CP > Edit Signature


I know it's early in this thread yet, but seeing all that Norton stuff you're running, it's gotta be taking a serious bite out of your system resources. It'll take some time and effort on your part, but everything you're doing with Norton can be done better (and cheaper, usually for free) with specialized utilities. Some personal recommendations:

AV - Avast
Anti-spyware - Ad-aware, Spybot, SpywareBlaster
Defrag - Diskeeper or O&O
Backup - I use Windows backup *ducks* to a backup hard disk
General disk/system cleanup - CrapCleaner
Registry maintenance - ERUNT, RegSupreme, RegSeeker, RegCleaner

All the above are here on MG.

Also it's critical to either visit Windows Update or have Windows configured to auto-update.

 

ive got windows configured for auto update, i will download the above proggies and see how it goes,
ive edited my sig with my pc info, and the show signature box is ticked, but its not appearing is it?

Thanx
Alanc+

 

I don't backup everything, only what would be lost if my C: drive died.

Documents
Pictures
Downloads
System State (includes Registry)
User profiles

You can also use ERUNT to backup and compact the registry


[Edit] Your sig is crankin now dude

 

how come i cant see it

 

Do you have 'Show Signatures' ticked in your User CP > Edit Options?

 

yep i do, i said it in the last post lol