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Originally Posted by Squirrel
and one more question: how much space do you guys allot to system restore space?
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0 ive never used it in my life.. i'd recommend turning off system restore, hibernation and drive indexing. when i switched to linux i "stored" about 30 or 40 gb of just windows crap that i had i tried compressing everything, then eventually burned the stuff i wanted to keep. one thing that kinda pissed me off was one of my hobbies was building windows unattended cds, i compressed the folder and made sure everything was ok (verified the RAR) then i burned it to a dvd (it was around 4 gigs) and it wouldnt open, a little mad i tried to extract it under linux, no go
luckily i have the unfinished "test" cds so if i ever wanna get back into it i have a place to start... after moving to linux i relized how many BS applications you had to run in order to keep windows running (semi) smoothly, out of all those 30+gb of downloads i deleted ill say around 5-10gb was all windows "fix" tools, for linux the only thing i run (ocasionally) is a program that deletes junk files.... now the most i give to windows is 5 gb the rest goes to /home, / , /media/movies, and /media/storage (random storage)
heres a list of things i would usually do in windows about once a week or so:
set diskeeper to screensaver mode (or defrag it atleast once a week)
run a reg cleaner
run a program to get rid of junk files (system mechanic is good for this)
run hitman pro (great program for removal of spyware, its 95% automated and runs around 9 different spyware removal tools, highly recommended)
a full virus scan (couldnt hurt)
throw darts at a picture of Bill Gates