Typer Tappers

So I recently purchased a new copy of Windows XP before I used to maybe re-format my hard drive every 1 year or so due to obvious reasons of windows lacking the ability to run well past the first year.

The usual stuff you had to do to keep windows running was a defrag, clean up temp files, empty the bin… well the list goes on and in reality we never did it. It maybe got cleaned once every 2 months if lucky, so I shall tell you how to do it automatically.

We shall begin with installing the usual, CCleaner and also put JKDefrag in your program files.

So we want to setup a simple batch file to run CCleaner and JKDefrag, you can however set JKDefrag to run when your screensaver appears but I can’t say I like screensavers that much.

Anyway we shall make the batch file (something.bat) in say C:\ (just for simplicity)  then in that we will put this in it

“%PROGRAMFILES%\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe” /AUTO
“%PROGRAMFILES%\JK Defrag\JkDefragCmd.exe” -a 2 -s 40 -d 2 C:

CCleaner has a auto function which will just clean what your previous settings where (I take it please correct me if I’m wrong).

and JKDefrag  will in order:

Defragment only, do not optimize. (-a 2)

Speed will be reduced to 20% (-s 40)

General progress messages. (-d 2)

Defrag C: drive (C:)

Now that is complete we want to open up Scheduled Tasks (Start >> All Programs >> Accessories >> System Tools >> Scheduled Tasks),and you can just follow the Add Scheduled Task wizard and set it up to run the bat file daily or weekly.

I take it you have heard about these new ultra mobile laptops (netbooks), well their not really new but they hit the blogs a lot when they came out, their was a lot of excitement over the Asus Eee laptop rightly so considering its a nice netbook.

Now me I’m too cheap to buy one at the retail price, instead I went one better and used ebay to buy myself a Compaq Evo N400c, now yes it might be 2-3 inches bigger but its a classic and repairable when something goes wrong, I’ve done a few fixes to it such as replacing the hard drive due to the old one failing unfortunately its a higher capacity but what you gonna do its all I had.

As I’m a complete computer nerd I did some upgrades and downgrades to it, I increased the RAM by another 256MB yep nothing in today’s standards but its still nice enough to run Windows 2000 without any trouble. As I just said I have Windows 2000 on it as XP was on it previously who puts XP on a laptop built for Windows 98 seriously? Well same could be said about Win2k but it runs quite well.

I’ve also replaced the nipple on the keyboard as it broke, but yeah its a really nice laptop to blog on, well it was untill WordPress updated it was really nice on it with the old layout , I was considering adding a wireless mini-PCI card in it but I ran low on money so I put up with a spare PCMCIA card which works perfectly fine all around the house, so its a really nice computer takes some maintanance but for a cheap bugger its perfect!

But I am considering buying the new Eee netbook, as I really could use something more modern and durable as its falling to bits, but I feel kind of dissapinted when I look at the Macbook 13″ as that has a massive battery life, and can be used as so much more than just a netbook but then you see the price.