[pchelpers] Re: SpinRite or Scandisk

I have XP on my personal computer, but when I work on someone elses's 
computer that has Win98, I always suggest once a week and with Win98 
it's easiest to use the Maintenance Wizard. Usually, those whose 
computer I'm working on would get very confused if I gave your Top Ten 
List (actually 7) to them. I try to educate them, but I have become the 
personal computer problem fixer for a ton of folks. I don't mind, but it 
is amazing that those 7 points you mentioned...... well, most folks 
don't have clue as to what they would do if they had to do them, I guess 
they don't use their computer for enough serious reasons to get serious.

Quite honestly, I rarely do them in safe mode, I agree it would be 
better to do it that way.

John Durham wrote:

>If you are interested in wise methods and safe performance, then run 
>scandisk about once a week as a practice. In addition, avoid things like 
>using the wall switch or the power button to shut down windows unless 
>there is no alternative. If you have to do that, it is time to run 
>maintainance programs anyway. A useful sequence to follow might be like 
>this:
>1)Restart in safe mode if you can (F8) during startup on many systems.
>2)Run your antivirus/spyware utilities over the system to remove things 
>that could interfere.
>3)Run scandisk set to fix errors standard first (thorough if needed due 
>to disk surface/file error concerns).
>4)Run defrag afterwards (DON'T defrag a disk with possible errors on it- 
>it makes things worse).
>5)Run system file checker (SFC at the command prompt) to repair/replace 
>system files.
>6)Run regclean or one of the better registry utilities to remove the 
>cludge from registry.
>7)If necessary, reboot with a win 98 or other suitable disk for your 
>system, and type FDISK /MBR at the prompt to fix the boot sector.
>
>Anyone want to add to that?
>Which of these haven't you done?
>  
>
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