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In response to
"thanks! -- nm"
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mafic
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A couple of other things
Posted by
Trish (aka trisha)
Apr 13 '11, 03:48
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Make sure you check all the boxes on the clean screen, especially the one for user names/passwords. Look at both tabs, windows and applications and check them all. She wants to make it like she's never been on that computer, right? :)
When you click on "tools" then drive wiper, you have the option of wiping the "open" space on the hard drive or the entire hard drive. You can shred upto the Gutmann level-35 passes, but DOD-3 passes or NSA-7 passes should suffice. If she wants to wipe the entire drive, make sure she knows that that means everything.
In options/settings uncheck the first box, check the next 3 boxes, then decide how and if you're gonna wipe free space. Then click on options/cookies. If there are any cookies on the right side, hold down the shift key and arrow down to highlight all of them. Then click the arrow pointing to the left so you can move them to be deleted all at once. Options/include is where you put all the personal files you want shredded. Click "add" and you'll get a screen to browse your system and pick and choose. Finally click options/advanced, there are 8 boxes. I'm not going to name them, but here's how you handle them: check uncheck check uncheck check uncheck check check.
Now you're ready to clean. Go to the left panel, click on "cleaner" then click "run cleaner". If it asks you if you want to make a backup, check NO. This will probably take some time to run since you're doing secure deletions. When it's done, then click registry. Make sure all the boxes are checked. Click "scan for issues". If she's never cleaned up the registry, you could end up with a thousand results, that's ok. When the scan is done, all the problems/fixes will be checked. Click on "fix selected issues". Say NO when it asks if you want to make a backup. Select "fix all issues", then watch it fly. Btw, if you're running this on your own computer, you want to make sure to make a backup. After it's done, run the cleaner one more time. If anything is found, run the registry cleaner again.
I run cleaner once a day and run the registry cleaner/tuner once a week and I never get stupid windows errors. One thing, before you run the cleaner, go through the cookies and make sure you keep the ones from like your bank, slacker talk, basically any place you have to login. You'll save yourself a world of grief. Hold down the alt key and click to select from the left side, when you're done scrolling click on the arrow pointing right so those cookies will be kept, not erased. Also, if you're using it as a basic utility, make sure you uncheck the box to get rid of usernames/passwords.
Then do yourself a favor and click tools/startup and get rid of all the crap that starts when you reboot, like adobe and/or java updater, etc. That crap is just bloatware and can add minutes to boot up. Ok, that's it--now you'll be able to handle this like a pro. :)
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