ITAdmin/Regmaint

For each machine:
 * Update & run Adaware SE Personnel on all machines: Adaware SE Personnel removes Adware and Spyware. You will find Adaware SE Personnel in the folder named "Utilities". You click on Start and then point to Utilities and click on Adaware SE Personnel. After Adaware Se Personnel opens, click on 'Check fo updates now', then click 'connect'. If there are New Definitions available, click on 'OK'. Let the new definition be retrieved to 100% and then click on the button 'Finish'. Next, click 'Start', then click Next. After the thourough scan is complete, click Next, then, make sure the 'Target families detected on this system' are checked - you do not have to select MRU; MRU's are safe browsers. Once checked and or unchecked, then click 'next', then 'OK'.


 * Update Anti-virus Software

Open a Web browser and type or copy and paste http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ Housecall searches and finds viruses and spyware. When this Web page opens, click on 'Scan Now'. It's Free! and then simply follow the instructions.
 * Run HouseCall Periodically:

To run ScanDisk:Click on 'Start', then 'Programs', then 'Accessories', then 'System Tools', and then 'ScanDisk'. Once ScanDisk is openned, select a drive to scan and click 'Start'.
 * Run full scan disk:

To Disk Defragmenter, do the following: Make sure there is no Screen Saver active, and make sure the Anti-Virus program is not running. No programs can run while Disk Defragmenter is on. Go to Start then go to Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter. Choose the Hard Drive you would like to defragment, and click OK. Disk Defragmenter can take 15 minutes or one hour or longer to complete depending on the last time when the Disk Defragmenter has been done on a specific computer.
 * Disk Defragmenter:

To do Windows Update, do the following: For Windows 2000 and Windows 98, Click on Start, then Windows Update - follow the instructions, and most likely will have to restart computer after a Windows Update is installed.
 * Windows Update:


 * Microsoft AntiSpyware for Windows 2000: Will be found in the Utilities folder if installed on computer. Not all Windows 2000 has Microsoft AntiSpyware installed on some of the computers.  Open Microsoft AntiSpyware and run an Update first, then run a scan.

To run Spybot Search & Destroy, go to the Utilities folder. A pop-up dialog box opens - click OK. Then click Search for Updates - make sure there is a check mark in the box to select and download the Updates, then click Download Updates.
 * Spybot Search & Destroy: