I’ll probably extend this list as time goes by, but since a few folks have asked me specifically about backup and hard disk cleaning, I thought I would share my finds here.<\/p>\n
For backup<\/strong>, I use Cobian Backup<\/a>. I’ve been using it for a long time now, it has proven to be the ideal background backup application (also a service).<\/p>\n For hard disk cleaning<\/strong>, I use CCleaner<\/a>. It’s fully-featured and provides a means of cleaning out virtually everything that is unnessary or not required to keep the PC running. It’ll clear down index.dat files, chkdsk fragments, IIS log files amongst many others. <\/p>\n For “Favourites” and URL management<\/strong>, I use URLBase<\/a>. At the moment I still use version 5.5 which meets most of my needs. Version 6 does look a lot nicer sporting an Outlook look’n’feel. At \u20ac29 (Euros) it’s not too expensive either.<\/p>\n If you’re interested in other goodies worthy of note, Scott <\/a>makes mention of a whole raft of them here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n On another note, via here<\/a>, Omar has a great tip if you are re-building an operating system install and you use Microsoft Outlook: manually migrate your Outlook Autocomplete history<\/a> (manual version here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few folks have been asking me what tools I use to keep my PC running smoothly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}