My Weekly Scheduled Jobs

Every Sunday, I perform a set of jobs on all my computers. They help optimize the system, save hard disk space, increase security and privacy, etc.
 
Clean: Using CCleaner, I clean the PCs including all the browser caches and various other application caches. (Read my introduction to CCleaner here.)
Disk Cleanup: I run disk cleanup ($ leanmgr) on all the drives.
Registry: I run a registry cleaner (these days CCleaner itself) to clean the registries, after taking a backup of the current registry set.
Virus Scan: I run an entire PC scan, not just the scan across the “commonly infected areas”.
Defragment: Using …read more