Computer maintenance is a part of everyone’s lives now, much like owning a car and getting it serviced, it just has to be done. Computers are the same, needing regular maintenance, as they get clogged up with truck loads of hidden files.
Most of the time the average computer user has no idea that they are actually messing up a computer just by using it. Do you surf the internet, read file attachments from your email, or simply write a Word document? Without even personally saving a file on your computer, there are hundreds of different files save automatically each time you do anything on your computer. For example if you receive an email with a Word document attached to it and open it to read instead of saving it first, the document Will be temporarily saved in the Windows Temp folder. Imagine after reading this Word document, you try to save it to your computer without looking where you are saving it. If you do not choose where to save this file it will be saved in a temporary folder. Eventually this temp folder becomes quite large in size without you even realizing.
In the video below I show you how I perform Computer maintenance on my computer. Of course there are programs out there that can do all this for you, which I will mention in a later article. Here are some steps I go through:
1. Move files I want to keep and store for later use.
2. Delete files i do not need.
3. Remove programs I do not need. (Ones I have installed)
4. Delete old emails.
5. Delete Temp files manually.
6. Delete junk files from the rubbish bin… Email programs have a junk and deleted folder to clean out also.
7. Perform disk Cleanup. (Getting what I missed)
8. Defrag with JKdefrag.`
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