Thank you for this great tutorial Greg. I just used it to clean up my sister's new HP laptop. She had some stuff already installed and didn't want to lose it, so I did this rather than a clean install, which is what I would have done if it had been my laptop.
I have all items disabled in msconfig start up except my av and 1 microsoft that keeps coming back
Do I need to disable all these programs somewhere else or is disabling them in msconfig good enough?
Thanks
Hello Vaper,
If you just didn't want the programs to run at startup, then disabling them in msconfig would be fine. :)
Nice ref Greg however I am a dedicated Kaspersky freak so won't use the MSE and I was under the impression that Windows 7 was more fussy on the defrag it uses preferring the M$ one instead of after markets??
The Puran Defrag and w7 seem to work fine together. I use it about one a month on my data HDD.
There is no comparing defrag done from Windows with a boot-time Defrag that has access to all of the System files. I learned this when no defrag would resolve slow reads and boot time on a HD except Puran which improved boot time by a minute.
Greg and others,
Thanks for all the help with my problem. Any idea's as to why Lenovo would put the recovery data in Q drive? I was looking at my own Lenovo which has a recovery but there is NO separate drive letter. It appears to be all part of the C drive. I made recovery disks and computer says that the Q drive can be deleted when that is done. Would deleting that be the same as taking and removing Q drive letter? I would like to keep the recovery if possible. I'm not sure how I can text the disks I made.
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