Mark the Echidna Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 So... I've decided to reformat my computer, after almost two years without doing so, and wanted some advice from you: How do you guys organize your hard drive space? What do you think that works and what you think that doesn't? I'm somewhat outdated. What tools, for instance anti-viruses, anti-spyware, firewalls would you guys recommend? That's basically it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 I don't even bother with anti-virus anymore. I've grown to prefer just using hijack logs and fixing my own problems and if that doesn't work, use system restore. As for antispyware, spybot is still good. By organizing harddrive space, what exactly do you mean? Like partitions? Directories? What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streak Thunderstorm Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 I use Spybot and AVG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smidge204 Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 I use AVG Free even though I probably don't have to. I've never had to use a spyware removal tool beyond HijackThis. I use Firefox and a good dollop of common sense and never seen to get infected. If you have the space, hunt down a copy of Acronis TrueImage and make a backup image of your current hard drive. The default compression gives about 40% so you need about half as much free space as you have data to make a backup (higher compression takes longer buy may be worth it). It'll even shop it up into multiple files if you like. The nice thing is TrueImage lets you mount images as read-only drives so you can easily copy files out of the backup. =Smidge= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 I use Spybot and AVG. Same here. But I don't let either run on startup or run all the time. They just suck up memory and bombard me with questions, balloons, and errors the entire time I'm on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 AVG free, hijack this!, standard XP and router firewalls. Should probably download spybot. As for partitions, I recently replaced a busted hard drive on the family computer and gave Windows a 10 GB partition of a 137 GB hard drive (160 GB hard drive actually, but it's an old motherboard and I'm not even sure it has whatever it needs to go above 137. Not worth the trouble for an extra 23 GB on a $40 hard drive for a computer that had 60 GB before). Probably wasn't necessary since it'll undoubtedly never have more than one OS on it. Don't know if that was the right size to do, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSF Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Go to Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/ You can find many useful tutorials there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epon Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 dont click on the free iPod links that's how i protect my computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hRook Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 organization tip: use desktop instead of my documents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shadix Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Are you mad Sage? That just makes things worse. :E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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