Cleaning up your computer even more

There are a lot of good programs for cleaning up your computer even more than what the programs that come with windows provide. Two free ones that i think are good are CCleaner (AKA Crap Cleaner) and Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal if you know any other good one, free or not, comment and tell everyone! Both CCleaner and WindowsCare have a clean up feature like Disk Cleanup, a registry cleaner, and a Start Up manager to manage programs that run at start up. Be careful with the registry cleaner though, because if you don't know how to use it well it could cause more harm to your computer than good. CCleaner also has an uninstall feature, which is quicker and provides a more thourogh list than Add or Remove Programs. WindowsCare provides a spyware scan (not a very good one though), a Security Defense that prevents spyware from getting on your computer, a system optimization, which changes settings on your computer to make it faster, a privacy sweep that deletes your internet history, etc., and a memory cleaner to free up ram on your computer, you shouldn't do this unless you have barley any RAM left, because it could end up slowing down your system! To get CCleaner click here. To get Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal click here.

Basic PC Clean Up

The 3 most basic ways of keeping your computer in good shape come with your PC.

To free up space on your computer follow these instructions:

1. Go to Start, then Programs or All Programs (depending on your computer), then Accecories, then System Tools, then click on Disk Clean Up.
2. Check Temporary Internet Files, and Temporary Files As far as the other things go, read the discription, if you are not sure to check one of the options or not, just don't check it. It may cause undesired results. As far as the 3 that I told you, they will just delete unnessesary files on your computer.
3. Click OK.

To uninstall programs from your computer, follow these instructions:

1. Go to Start, Control Panel (this will be under settings if you have a Windows Operating System older than XP)
2. Now click on add or remove programs
3. Select the file you want to uninstall
4. Click remove
5. Follow the instructions to uninstall the program

To rearrange files on your hard disk to make your computer run faster follow these instructions:

1. Go to System Tools (check step 1 for Disk Clean Up if you forgot where it is) and click on disk defragmenter
2. Click on your main hard disk (this will usually be disk C)
3. Click Defragment
4. This can take several hours, so just leave your computer on and do something else (not on the computer), make sure to not exit it while defragmenting because this can lead to file loss
   

These are the 3 most basic ways to keep your computer in good condition. Disc Clean Up should be used once a week and Disk Defragmenter should be preformed at least once every two weeks, Add or Remove programs you can use whenever you need to uninstall programs from your computer.