Pc maintenance

[muvi]

Hi all,

i know some technical sites...

- doom9 for video

- cdfreaks for cd/dvd issue

- hydrogenaudio for audio


ecc....


What do you recommend for pc maintenance?


P.S.: Only in english or italian language, please!



Thanks in advance!

[Tagert]

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/categories-list.htm
perhaps :)

[Shinigami-Sama]

comptia A+ reference books
'course they want you to know IRQ tables and voltages and other useless stuff like that

[Dr.Khron]

The guys at www.hardforums.com (www.hardforums.com) are complete PC hardware freaks.

A bit of "hardcore gamer" bias, though.


EDIT:
Also, there are some smart guys in the "PC Hard & Software" subforum on this very board, you can try there.

[muvi]

Thanks guys!

And about software pc maintenance? Defrag, security, utility, myths....

About what programs are really useful and why...

[Shinigami-Sama]

perfect disk 8 -- defragger of my choice

spybot search and destroy -- anti-malware, and misc tools(host file filter is nice)

ccleaner - nice for cleaning up temp files every few weeks with

noscript - firefox add-on, very very very highly recomended security addon

adblock+ - firefox add-on, also very good

adblock+ filterset.g - firefox compainion add-on, intergrates with adblock+ to update some premade filters which are A1

windizupdate - firefox add-on, windows update alternative

miniPE - very usefull PE disc(windows live disc basicly) with lots of utilities, copyright nightmare though

[chilledoutuk]

www.overclockers.co.uk forum

is good

[Blue_MiSfit]

forums.anandtech.com is a good one too

[mr soft]

Mike lin has a couple small but nice tools.

http://www.mlin.net/

Core temp or speedfan, a couple of nice temp monitors.

Trend PCcilan free online scan.

AVG antivirus

The pc guide forums

Doom9 pc hard and software, I have received some of my best help here. :)