[truexskills]

hey
i'm basically just trying to find any ways where I can maybe clean out my computer to get rid of useless junk and to help keep it running faster and smoother as possible

any advice, even simple things that have helped you out
thanks

[awdark]

http://www.ccleaner.com/
Probably the safest and fastest way to clean up excess junk.

After that do a defrag and thats the most basic, easy to do fixup that you can do.

[Fishscene]

Actually, before running ccleaner, go ahead and uninstall whatever programs you don't use (or no one else uses). Then run Ccleaner.

Another thing to do is go to start>run>msconfig

click on the "Startup" tab and uncheck everything that isn't essential (such as quicktime, or weatherbug) *cough* although you shouldn't have weatherbug on your comptuer in the first place.

Also, go ahead and download and run spybot: Search and Destroy and Lavasoft: Ad-aware. Those are 2 great programs for cleaning up your system from malware.

Defenitely defrag as Awdark said. And when you are all done with cleaning up your system, right-click your C:\ drive, go to "tools" and then check your disk for errors. (Requires a reboot and a couple of hours). That should tidy up any loose ends of your data.

Have fun with this. If you keep your computer screamin' clean, your friends might invite you over to "fix up" thier pc. Just do what was said here and they too will have a "just like new!" pc. ^_-

[SeviE]

http://www.ccleaner.com/
Probably the safest and fastest way to clean up excess junk.

After that do a defrag and thats the most basic, easy to do fixup that you can do.

awdark, is that really really safe? your using it too right?

i wana d/l it it too.