IT Administration/STRM/SectionOne/ListofDefrag

List of Things That PERC Should Do To Maintain Each Computer Regularly

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Authour: Tony Seles, et. al.

Date: January 3, 2004

Modified: 24 April 2004

First priority is to check computer security features. (/T. for on-site... see list on storage room door.)

1) All Disks & CDs to be organized and in a single, known place, probably on the racks near the printers

2) Hard Drives to have only the software that we want; current, useful, and used;

3) Directory structures to be clean, consistent, and stable;

4) Desktops to be clean, consistent, and stable (currently cluttered, variable, and unstable)

Concerning virtual disks and directories. The different names and structures of drives on the network vs when at the machine causes confusion and actually creates a greater data security threat because volunteers are not sure where they are and where they want to be. Can we do away with this practice????

(do them in this order)


 * Monitor and actively communicate on the BBS. (/T.)


 * scandisk (Once at the __end of each month__ per computer./T.) (__Tony__ may be doing this. [ logfile | ITAdmin/STRM/logfile ])


 * purge data that has been discarded by people (carefully) (Only emptying the Desktop Trashcan __weekly__. Tony may be doing this. Andrew said I should __script__ this... and I have not started to write the script for this. Windows empties this when it is "full"... and periodic emptying may speed Windows up too. Isn't this obvious? /T.)


 * have a specialist optimise the computers individually (suggest __once a year__.-keb   __Krishna__ may be doing this.)


 * ([ antivirus | AdminIT/Guides/Security/Virii ].. F-Prot on Windows is self-maintaining so this may not require any effort and Linux is good against viruses.) (see [task for renewing/replacing the engine | http://www.perc.ca/dotproject/index.php?m=tasks&a=view&task_id=966] ; it is expired.-keb)


 * [spyware scan | AdminIT/Guides/Security/Spyware+Adware ] (__weekly__) Jiayi may be doing this.


 * defrag (suggest not more than __once a season__.-keb   __Krishna__ may be doing this.)


 * Dusting inside of computers should normally be done __every two months__ with an air faucet. (Who really wants to do this anyway?)


 * Backups every two months. (/T.)