Step 1: Cleaning Up Your Hard Drive

Chris — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:05:11 +0000

As said in the introduction many of us have computers with resources taken up by unnecessary programs. Most of us have around 50 to 60 large and small programs that we don’t use. These programs take up our computers resources that could be kept available for the things we do need. Most of the time we have installed a program ourselves and used the program for our original purpose and don’t need them anymore. Or we just have never needed what is installed on our computer and don’t even know that it is there. One of the main issues we find is that when buying a computer it has a bunch of pre-installed programs. Some of these programs are trial software, or low end programs that don’t do what we need anyway. The majority of the time we find better programs later on that will do these functions or services for us more efficiently. Some of the software industry has achieved a level that can provide the general public with its services for no cost at all. Most of these programs are free downloads and have such a huge success that it is more important for them to monopolize and get the software out there than it is to charge a fee for the software and make a profit. Using universally and industry accepted programs will make things easier for us as a computer user.

STEP 1: Now that we have a general background of what is on our computers we need to clean it up. One of the most powerful tools that we have at our disposal is the add remove programs. We would recommend especially to people that have just purchased a new computer the first thing we would do is take the time and go to this tool and get rid of trial programs or programs you know you will not ever use. It is beneficial to you to remove the stuff you don’t need properly. You can find this tool by following the commands:

Click START – Click Control Panel – Program and Features

This will give you a list of the software that is installed on your computer. We would recommend that you scroll through these and anything that you see that is a 30 day trial or something that you have no interest in using remove. CAUTION: If you do not know what a program is or what it does do not remove it! We would recommend doing some research on the software if you are not sure what it is for or what it does. When you find software that you do not need click on it and Click Uninstall. This is the button right at the top tool bar next to organize, views, change and repair. Then follow the directions from there. This is one way of removing software properly and will help organize and remove software you do not need freeing up your computers resources.

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Step 1: Cleaning Up Your Hard Drive