| Anticipation - Is your system slowing you down? |
| by Jan Johansen & Dan Sweigert |
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| Something’s taken over your PC! Simple tasks that used to take a millisecond now take forever. Is it already time for a new computer – or is there something else you can do to get that Carly Simon chorus out of your head? |
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| Actually, there are some simple ways to clean up and revitalize your system – all of which should be regular, routine maintenance. In this article, we’ll tell you about some standard Windows housekeeping utilities – and we’ll share a great trick that Microsoft doesn’t tell you about… |
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| Clean up your act… |
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| Windows’ Disk Cleanup utility looks for files it thinks you’ll no longer need. It’s a handy tool because it covers a lot of bases and finds files you might not know how to locate yourself. We’d suggest you run it about once a week, and it’s most effective when you close all your programs first. |
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| Just select All Programs from the Start button in the lower left corner of your screen, then select Accessories, System Tools, and Disk Cleanup. After you choose a hard drive, the utility takes a few minutes to determine how much space you could free up, then gives you the option of which ones you want to delete. |
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