Sitting again at my PC, doing maintenance...... it seems that doing
maintenance takes more time than actually using the PC for surfing or
e-mailing. I have by now 9 cleaning-.. virus-... spyware-...
backup-....adaware-.... etc.-programs accumulated which I am now trying
to run only once a week. Before, I was spending an inordinate amount of
time just doing maintenance. There is something very wrong with this
picture and the amount of garbage floating around the internet is
insane and against which one has to protect oneself. If you have a
suggestion on how this can be handled more efficiently, please, let us
all know. And I do not want to run my PC at night to do this
maintenance automatically.
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Leaving your computer running overnight is one common and easy way
to deal with this issue. It's certainly what I do.
But it doesn't have to be the only solution.
But I also have to ask: NINE MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS? For
starters, it sounds to me like you're doing more maintenance than you
need to.
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