Your Computers Yearly Maintanance, spring cleaning.

Well for me at least its getting time to clean out my PC a full clean meaning from physically leaning hardware to the desk and cleaning files up in the PC.

So to start off I would clean up what i don’t need starting in add and remove programs, now if your security conscious you will find that you haven’t really installed much this year but if you have do what you need to to get rid of them.

Next onto files I start off on the Desktop where all the crap I store is so i make a couple of new folders in My Documents label things like “PDF Files”, “txt files” and “Misc” then I can just start sorting it out hopefully having a empty desktop will also help your performance.

Well now you’ve done that I get started in setting up my boot options using “msconfig” hopefully you all know what it is (its a system configurations utility) as usual with things like this be careful but what I do is go into startup and deselect what I don’t want.

Now the fun stuff opening the computer now what I like to have is a can of air now I’ve recently found that you don’t want to go for the cheap stuff it really is crap, really messed up my computer using it so I like to start of with stripping the computer down, then using the canned air to get off as much dust as possible now if it hasn’t got everything off get a cloth and wipe it lightly, I like to use the cloth to also clean the heatsink by putting it in between the metal and pulling it side to side works very well so after you’ve done it all put it back together and your all done inside the PC.

Next is your desk easy peasy get a bin slide everything into it .