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 am using CCleaner since many years. But I never know that it can run in the background. I will set it in the scheduled task. Can you suggest a good Defragmentor apart from JkDefrag? In my Lenovo I have Diskkeeper but I am facing difficulty to register it online. So I want to use alternative defragmentor.
Now that we have Vista and Windows 7, XP is still lurking around. Wonder when it will go out? Reminds me of Windows 98