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How to clean up your computer

If you arrived here because you want to physically clean your computer, open it up and use a soft small brush to clean the dust out.

Maintain your computer

To keep your computer logical to you, create folders such as 'Downloads', 'my web space' 'my virus protector', etc.That way, when you download something which may not be called what you remember it as being you will have it in the right folder at least. Another way is the rename that program so you know what it is.

Dealing with zipped files.

Create a folder for each zipped file you are going to download. After Winzip has dealt with it, you can delete the zipped file.

One should clean up computers much more often than I do and it does create a lot more space.

Clean files on computers

All right, you will have one or two reasons to clean up your computer

1. To create more space

2. To optimise the way your computer is working

Before continuing make a short cut of Windows explorer.
Start>Programs>Windows explorer. Right click on it and choose Create shortcut. You can also right click on any programs here to delete them if they are of no use. Apologies to all those who know these things but beginners on computers may not.

1. Click on My Computer > Control Panel > Add/Remove programs

2. Uninstall any programs you no longer use.

3. Open Windows explorer > Start> Programs> Scroll to Windows explorer (or use your new shortcut)

4. Go through every folder and file and delete what you have forgotten you downloaded once and no longer use.

5. Go to Start> Find> Files or folders. Type in *tmp in Named >Find Now and you can safely delete these temp files

6. Find your temp folder in Windows explorer and you can delete all these files. Sometimes you will be told when you can't.

7. Open My Computer. Right click on C: and go to Properties. Under General you can click on Disk clean up.

8. Open Windows explorer, scroll down to Windows>Temporary internet files> (Usually Content 1E 6)> 2W4TYFG or something like that. Open all files one by one and you can delete all those files within. A quicker way to do this is to View files as a list and then highlight your first file, hold down Shift, scroll down by about 100 files, click on Shift again and all those files will be highlighted. Right-click and Delete.
Usually you are told that you should not delete disk.ini files. If you want space urgently go to the bottom of the folders and that's where all the gifs, js files, css files are. These are the ones with more KBs in them.

9. Keep deleting from your Rubbish bin. They can get full depending on how they are set.

10. Delete duplicate photos. Go to Search> pick music, picture files and type in *.jpg and later *.gif

You will see exact duplicates if you View by details. You can delete your duplicates.

With XP you can now go to My Computer, right click on Drive C, go to Properties and you will see a box saying Clean disk.

Click this and later it will ask if you want to defrag. Do this. You will need to reboot your computer after thse tasks are done.

 

 

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