Saving Windows: Battle to Save My Windows Partition (Day 1)

Saving Windows: Battle to Save My Windows Partition (Day 1): "

As you guys may or may not know, I am a Linux supporter. A HUGE LINUX SUPPORTER! Now knowing that, the next thing may shock you.  The majority of the computing that I do is in Windows (Windows 7 to be exact).

Now, I know what you must be thinking: “How can I guy who even has Linux in his name even dare work with Windows?”  There is an explanation to this: I’ve become attached to a few ways getting things to work due to the software provided to me.  Basically, due to certain situations, be it classes or devices that I own, I needed Windows to run software that just couldn’t be run on Linux, like iTunes (another gasp! I used to own an iPod Touch before switching to Android).  Another reason why I’m trying to hold on to Windows is because of Android.  I can’t learn to develop Android apps on my personal device without Windows (at the moment).

So, now with the reason why Windows even exists on my computer has been explained, we can continue with the rescuing.

Lately, I’ve been having some issues with the stability of Windows due to its installation age.  Naturally, when you cleanly install an OS, its going to be snapping and its performance will decline with use and other applications installed on it.

Some people say that you should reinstall your OS every six months and that seems to work but halts productivity for at least a week.  Linux, on the other hand, doesn’t have issues like that (that I noticed).  Plus, with updates coming down constantly and a major OS release every six months (at least for Fedora and Ubuntu).

I’m trying to break that cycle by aggressively attacking any performance issues that may be plaguing my system, whether it be malicious code or my own doing.

Day 1

For the first day, I decided that I would do a whole system scan for viruses and malware using Microsoft Security Essentials.  This actually proved to be a bad idea as I ran it in the middle of the day.  You see, Windows is my main OS which pretty much means all my media (documents, pictures, music, videos, etc.) is on this partition and when scanning each file (seemingly bit per bit), this can take all your processing ability away and for a very long time.

Good news is, after I waited all day for the scan to complete, it reported that there were no viruses detected on my system.

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