hi troth - yes xp - no nortons. you seem to be telling me that bill has dumped w98's maintenance wizard in xp. if this is typical of xp, i don't think i shall be going there. my friend is also a 'Bill' and he needs easy, very easy; me too in fact. i'll put this question another way - what can a newbie do easily on xp to clean up at the end of the day or next morning, either will do, in order to start afresh. cheers jo Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:47:04 -0400 From: ~OoO~ <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: trying to help The removing of the temp files you'll need either an external app or a batch file. Batch file I can't help on, as I'm not the keenest on those. Did you say he has WinXP? Also, does he have Norton SystemWorks, cause if he does he can do it all from there, including the cleaning of the temp files. ---Troth At 9/22/2003 05:48 PM, you wrote: >ORIGINAL;- From: ~OoO~ <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ><<mailto:SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> >Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: trying to help >Does he want to schedule the scandisk and defrag to run at every >start-up? >Or, does he want to schedule it for a specific time? Or, does he want to >set it up to do it at boot-up but then set up the machine to >automatically >boot up at a specific time every night? ---Troth > >ideally - delete all temps, then scandisc, then defrag, in that order at >bootup. >cheers jo To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk