Spring Cleaning
Well, do to the fact that it's felt like spring out here all week (highs in the 50's) and somewhat sunny, I got in a cleaning mood. So I called up a good friend, and we not only reformatted our computers, but took them completely apart and cleaned everything.
We found a *ton* of dust, which we got rid of about 70-80% of, and some other good things to fix. A hinge on on of my CD-tray-hider-things broke, etc etc. I highly recommend this to anyone with a desktop, as you'd be amazed at the dust you'll find. Also, even Microsoft recommends a reformat once a year, I'd say at least every 6 months.
This is due to a number of factors:
- It gets rid of virii you havn't caught yet.
- It gets rid of programs you don't use anymore, but never get around to deleting.
- It lets you audit your data, and figure out what's vital enough to save, letting you make *accurate* backups, not just saving everything on your drive.
- It cleans out the registry, many programs don't remove their registry entries, and this can actually slow the computer down a tad.
In the process of removing the mother board, I "nicked" my hand on a corner of the box. Turns out it was a wee bit more then a nick. It bled for a good half hour, soaking through the first bandage I put on it in under a minute. I ended up just wrapping my belt around a bunch of paper towels on my hand, and tieing it down good and tight. Took a good half hour for the bleeding to slow enough for a bandaid. Now, I just took off the one I put on this morning, and it seems to have closed up. It looks awesome... I hope this scars. To give you an idea, it's about a centimeter long, and crescent shaped, with the widest part (the center) a good half centimeter. It's about a millimeter or two of shaved off skin, so the new skin is all white... awesome
Anyways, back to cleaning up a new windows system... the junk they install default is sickening.
