Removing the Computer Clutter
Posted by by Monmouth County-Monroe Twp News and Real Estate Information on 1st July 2006
If your computer or Internet seem to be running slow there are some very basic steps you can take to speed things up a bit. Be sure to clear your cookies, history and cashe at least once a week. Simply go to the Internet, go to Tools, go to Internet Options, select the General Tab, In the center of this box you will see a button that reads “Delete Cookies” this will clear your cookies. Next to that button you will see “Delete Files” a smaller box will pop up asking if you would like to delete offline files also. I always delete both. Finally you will want to Delete History, this button is near the bottom of the box. After finishing close the Interent.
I then move on to my Windows Start button then to Accessories and then to System Tools and finally to Disk Cleanup. I run disk cleanup on Drive C. Most of what is found are temporary interent files. I delete them and a self extracting shreddar comes up that will remove every trace of these files from my computer. I then reboot my computer and restart my interent. If your internet is still running slow, you may want to try using a program such as ad-aware which will remove adware files and speed things a good amount. I use this program once a month. After completing be sure to activate your pop-up blocker and virus software.
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