System Automation
by Dan
So I have decided to resurrect an old laptop that I had sitting in my office for about 2 years. Well after $40 to quadruple the memory and replacing the hard drive and then re-installing XP from scratch and then all the manufacturer drivers, we finally are in business. I then plugged this into my network and our LCD TV and the stereo. So it is our own little home entertainment system for our TV. Well I decided that since this thing would be on 24/7 that I needed to do some automation to some tasks to keep it clean. Because Playon and Hulu and other web based tools like to create awesomely large temp files that just hang around if you do not delete them. Also because it is a WindowsXP machine I figured scheduling a daily reboot wasn’t a bad idea either. Well turns out these are all very simple things to automate and then schedule.
For CCleaner you just need to run it in the silent mode by creating a schedule that kicks off ‘CCleaner /AUTO’
For JKDefrag you just need to schedule to run the JKDefragCMD file
For a scheduled reboot you just need to schedule a job that kicks off ‘Shutdown.exe -r -t 00′
Lifehacker has a great article on other processes you can automate but these were the first three I went after to keep my computer clean. I scheduled CCleaner and JKDefrag on my work laptop and it really does keep things clean and moving along a whole lot better!
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