Over the years, the skills one needed to survive in every day life has changed. Two thousand years ago you needed to know how to use a speer and track your prey. A thousand years ago you needed to know how to joust and fight in a bulky suit of armour. A few hundred years ago, you needed to know how to use a sword and ride a horse. A hundred years ago you had to know how to use a gun and ride a horse. Today you need to know how to use drive a car and use a computer. Here are some tips on how to keep your computer in order.
Use these tips to create space on your harddrive:
1. Remove Unused applications. Programs take up vast amounts(in the tens to hundreds of megabytes) of your harddrive. Use an uninstall utility.
2. Erase Duplicate or old files. These files can be old versions of documents. You can also use an uninstall utility for this.
3. Clear Recent Documents. If you don't want to return to there documents again in the near future. Use the task bar properties for this.
4. Clear Recycle Bin. When you delete a file, it is put here so you can restore it if you need to. These files take up just as much space as before they were deleted. Use the clear provided.
Use these tips with the internet:
1. Clear History. You can clear all the places you have been to if you don't want go there again. You can also just delete selected items too.
2. Clear Temporary Internet Files. This is the cache into which all files are dowloaded when you visit a webpage. It is as large as you have specified. While you are surfing the net, if a message appears that says you are out of space, then it probably means that the cache it full. Clear it with the browser option.
3. Remove unwanted Favourites and Bookmarks. If you have too many favourites or bookmarks you can delete the ones you don't need any more.
Use these tips to organize your drive(s):
1. Scandisk. Run this program fairly often because it finds and corrects any problems with the files on your harddrive(s).
2. Defragment. Run about once month to put all the parts of a program together and line them up in continuous order on your harddrive(s). Your programs will load faster.
3. Backup all data files. This can't be stressed enough. Make a backup copy of all files that you will want. If something happens to these files, you can restore them with little problem.
4. Enter all your program files into the start menu. This allows you to launch programs from the start menu.
5. Create shortcuts to all your programs, on the desktop. This allows you to run any program from the desktop. You can create folders to hold all like shortcuts.(i.e. games, utilities, etc.)
These are the tips that I have at this time. I will be adding more so please return from time to time.
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