Wednesday, March 4

Keeping Clean Computers

In this day and age just about everyone owns a computer of some sort.  Also in this day and age just about everyone complains about their computer.  Today I will be telling you why you shouldn't be complaining to anyone but yourself.

First off the biggest thing that will slow your computer down (I've found) is having crap tons of stuff saved on your Desktop.  You don't need to have that many icons!! Just save your stuff elsewhere, is it that hard to open up your explorer and find the program yourself?? You should never have more than 2 full rows of icons on your desktop, if you do try compacting some of the stuff into folders, adding icons to your start menu, or just simply removing the icon, you can always access the stuff by going the long way.

Nextly is cleaning out your history and cache and temporary files.  It's very easy to do.  If your ultra lazy or ultra skeptical just go to All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disc Cleanup (sorry don't know where it is for macs).  If you want to do it the good way I suggest downloading CCleaner and using that to clean up many many things on your computer.

Another simple thing to do is: remove programs you don't use.  There are, again, two ways to do this.  The normal way which is going to your operating systems control panel and removing it that way/using the programs uninstallation software, or again using CCleaner and using their wizard which completely removes all files to be sure there are none left behind.

If you follow these simple steps you will find your computer running a good deal faster than it was before.  It's like daily bathing once you get in the habit, you just do these things naturally and without them you would feely dirty and violated.

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