How much help can I get from these forums??
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:04 pm
Hi, folks!!
I'm enormously interested in getting the Ace Utilities package... however, I'm a little on the " chicken " side, as I've only had a PC for a little over a year.
Upon viewing the Ace Utilities website, it sounds like something good to have... I had no idea that there was all this " dangly-stuff " that can be left over in one's PC. Especially the revelation on " deleted " eek-mail... often wondered where they went, as they never show up in the trash-bit to be deleted.
Also, the examples of the " HKEY " thingamabobs... cripes... it all looks like Martian to me!!! I'm scared stiff I would off something that is needed to make a program go smoothly. So, how can I learn to look at these and be sure what I selected for the high jump really IS a left-over dribble, and not something that needs to be there??
The main reasons for my concerns is that I share this PC with my flatmate... and he would be ENORMOUSLY unimpressed if I conked the system by trying to be smarter than I am and tidy it up of all the afore-mentioned effluvia that slowly builds up.
I'm seriously thinking of getting Ace Utilities, but am worried that if I get a bad case of " deer-in-the-headlights " going on, I'll spend more time weeping in frustration rather than keeping the PC running at its peak!!!
Thanks to anyone who has any help / comments... if you think I'm too paranoid to get this program, PLEASE be frank and let me know. I'd rather go without than drive not only myself, but the good people on the forums here crazy with persistent requests for help and advice.
I'm enormously interested in getting the Ace Utilities package... however, I'm a little on the " chicken " side, as I've only had a PC for a little over a year.
Upon viewing the Ace Utilities website, it sounds like something good to have... I had no idea that there was all this " dangly-stuff " that can be left over in one's PC. Especially the revelation on " deleted " eek-mail... often wondered where they went, as they never show up in the trash-bit to be deleted.
Also, the examples of the " HKEY " thingamabobs... cripes... it all looks like Martian to me!!! I'm scared stiff I would off something that is needed to make a program go smoothly. So, how can I learn to look at these and be sure what I selected for the high jump really IS a left-over dribble, and not something that needs to be there??
The main reasons for my concerns is that I share this PC with my flatmate... and he would be ENORMOUSLY unimpressed if I conked the system by trying to be smarter than I am and tidy it up of all the afore-mentioned effluvia that slowly builds up.
I'm seriously thinking of getting Ace Utilities, but am worried that if I get a bad case of " deer-in-the-headlights " going on, I'll spend more time weeping in frustration rather than keeping the PC running at its peak!!!
Thanks to anyone who has any help / comments... if you think I'm too paranoid to get this program, PLEASE be frank and let me know. I'd rather go without than drive not only myself, but the good people on the forums here crazy with persistent requests for help and advice.