Routine maintenance

Every so often in a woman's life, she just has to roll up her sleeves and get geeky.  Many hours of coffee and staring at the computer later, I have gotten rid of a lot of hard drive cheese.  A year's worth of unneeded restore points, an ocean of $NTuninstallbs files, tons of temp files, *.bak files, unwanted windows components, half a gig of Java droppings, and generally a ton of useless shit has been chased down the digital drain.  Almost 10,000 emails have been deleted.  All but three of them were about Atomic.  Okay, not really - a scary amount of them were Amazon and music download receipts.  Email folders have been compacted, the registry has been cleaned and compacted.  Crap cleaner has been run, TreeSize has been run to track down the rest of that Windows Update scum, the registry has been tweaked to get rid of that shut-down slowing page-clear function, dskchk has been run, and an Itunes backup is in progress.  I have 15 recovered gigs so far.  Oh yeah!

After the backup finishes munching up the rest of my DVDRs, I will set up a scheduled defrag script and go to freaking sleep.

Tomorrow, the continued quest to get the rest of my id3 tags clean, and to decide which CDs to load in on lossless encoding next.  While there are better ways to spend a weekend, it needed to be done.