hello fellow spiceheads!
i am trying to make something so i can “set it and forget it” for doing tuneups.
ideally i would like to put the programs i use for a tuneup or a full tuneup on a flash drive and put a script and depending on the script that runs it will determine if it needs to run an AV scan, defrag, cleanup, etc
any ideas on this? right now i do tuneups on 30 computers a month remotely and would love to just automate the process.
3 Spice ups
Neally
(Neally)
2
I’m pretty sure you can do that if you are working with portable apps, and then just create a scheudled task to call them.
Do you have a central place to store things? That would be better than having 30 usb sticks…
Also there is freeware out there, idk if you are allowed to use it in commercial settings, but things like malwarebytes free, avira free, ccleaner, etc.
kfberns
(kfberns)
3
Depending on your definition of “TuneUp”… This is what I do -
Use Ninite.com - Use it to update all your apps like browsers, adobe, java and so on. Run it every night.
Defrag will run automatically (Windows Vista and newer) when the computer is idle so not much to do there except make sure the PC is on when no one is using it.
AV scan - that should run every night anyway along with Windows updates.
I use a couple of different tools and scripts along with GP to facilitate this process. I start my machines at 4AM and they do everything mentioned above by 9AM when staff arrives.
CrashFF
(CrashFF)
4
If you have a bunch of separate utilities, you can script it in AutoIT and build a single EXE out of it. I used to do this for unattended installations with 20+ different programs that couldn’t be pushed out. I just copied the cd’s all to the same usb hard drive and ran the one exe.
I feel like I don’t have a vote in this conversation…
