before lunch about every week I start to run a defrag, well, except on the Vista system cause I am trying to fragment it a bit more right now.
As for deleting temps and crap, I've got a batch file to clean it out. It only takes a few seconds usually. I use the same batch file (I shared it out) to clean out systems that I am setting up or fixing.
As for chkdsk, it is a rare run. I probably should run it more oft, but I dont unless probs happen.
As for drivers, I rarely go looking for new drivers unless the system doesnt play nice.
As for patches, where I work, they are forced onto systems at bootup. Usually at least 1 patch a week, no telling what days. Damned SW to control it. The worst is when it installs and forces reboots while I am working....
As for Outlook, this is the pain one. Managing emails that are filling up my MB.
If I have time I sort through the main ones, and dump everything else into a .pst called "unfiled"
then I send my sent items to a .pst called "Sent", and archive regularly. If I dont have time, and my MB is filling up quickly, I just dump everything older than 2 weeks into the unfiled pst.
I create new .pst files every few months, and oust everything over 1 yr. that does not need to be saved.
Managing the MB is the most time consuming single, ongoing task that I have.
