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Improve Computer Performance

By the looks of it, you are looking for some super easy tips to help you improve computer performance. There really is no reason in the world why you should have to pay the Geek Squad $200 dollars to look over your machine and basically do nothing to really help it. Ok…they might do a few things, but it most certainly isn’t worth the $200 dollars you spent.

Let’s quickly go over a some things you can do that will instantly help improve computer performance right way. I will try to explain these in a way that makes them easy to follow and do.

Don’t Clutter Your Desktop

I see this way too often, and I am even sometimes guilty of it. You save every file you create or file that you download on the internet to your desktop. It’s OK if you only do it one or two times, but when you can hardly see the desktop background because you a hundred files saved to your desktop then it is time to give it a cleaning. Utilize your My Documents folder. Save all of your files there. Simply put, that is what it is there for.

If you don’t believe me on the whole ‘files on the desktop deal’ then why would Microsoft remind you with a little bubble window that you have desktop icons that are more than 60 days old and that you should run the Desktop Cleanup Utility.

Having a clean desktop will help improve your computers performance.

Get Rid Of Unused Files

This really isn’t ground breaking news here, but clearing up disk space and deleting unused and temporary files will most certainly help improve computer performance. Temporary internet files will hog up a ton of space and cause for computer slow downs. Windows actually makes getting rid of temporary files and old unused files pretty easily. They created a tool called Disk Cleanup. It can be accessed by going to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. When you first run it, it will take a few minutes to scan your system and then come back with a list of file types and how much space they are taking up. I would recommend that anything taking up more than 5 or 10 megs be deleted. Just put a check in the box and then click OK to delete them. I would recommend a reboot after running Disk Cleanup.

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