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Maintenence

CCleaner cleaning multiple user accounts

In Asides, Maintenence, Software on 23 October 2005 with no comments

I hope CCleaner developers build support for cleaning all user accounts on a computer. That would help system maintenence at work a lot! They don’t at the moment.

Maintenence for 75+ computers?

In Annoying, Computers, Maintenence on 20 October 2005 with 4 comments

How do I clean and run maintenence on over 75 computers running Windows XP, that are also housing multiple accounts on each system? One by one? (You know, making sure they don’t have extraneous programs, cleaning temporary internet files and cookies, stuff like that.)

Easier multi-system maintenence

In Hard Drives, Maintenence, Windows on 13 September 2005 with no comments

Back in January, I posted “Defrag automatically in minutes“. I should try to make it easier on myself to maintain systems here at work, too. (I think we have over 50.)

I was thinking that I could setup the batch file on each system and have it run once a month at a specific day in the week (e.g. First Thursday of the month). But, what if the person forgets to leave their computer on?

So, I might go another route. I’ll create a one-page template that states something along these lines:

Your system will run hard drive maintenance (defragmenting) at 1am. When you leave from work, do not turn off your system. You can remove this tomorrow. Thanks!

I could do this once a month, or every other month, perhaps going through a floor of computers in a day and finishing off the rest the next day. The batch file would stay on the computer, and I’d setup the scheduled task to run it that day (then delete itself afterwards).

Thoughts? Good idea, bad idea? Personal experience(s)?