by Red Bull

Created on: March 16, 2009

The computer hard drive will get dirty from time to time. No, not the usual dirt you see on your house or your car, it's not dust you can see, it's "dust" inside your computer's hard disk. It's files and a lot of data that does not need to be there anymore, still the computer operating system is not able to deal with this thing all the time.

Start by running the operating system disk cleaner. All windows machines have one incorporated. This thing will clean all the files that the operating system does not need anymore. Many of those files were created to be used temporarily, let's for about one day, then they should be removed but the operating system only does that when there is not enough free space in the hard disk. But until that, the files shall remain there forever. If you have your computer for about ten years, you can see in the temp folder files you deleted ten years ago. Match that with a security invasion and you can just see how (in)secure a windows computer is. Never trust on Microsoft.

This tool alone is not enough to clean the entire system. You need something much better. There's a program called Ccleaner, not there is no mistake in the name it's really CCleaner with 2 C's that will clean almost your entire computer. It starts with the Internet Explorer which is the biggest pig your computer has, it leaves bad dirt everywhere, then it will follow most known programs such as Google Earth temporary files, all major programs such as firefox and more, the windows registry and almost everything you know and you do not know.

This program will also allow you to quickly remove all the programs you do not use anymore. This is super useful because Windows default tool is just too stupid to know how to properly remove all the programs, not to mention that is extremely slow all the time, really all the time, sometimes it will even crash and say you have to wait until the uninstall is complete after hours.... Again don't trust windows here.

Finally you will have to clean your computer by yourself. Most programs after you remove them from your computer will leave traces of data inside the hard disk. Go to the folder that has you windows user name and delete all the folders with the names of the programs you removed but that still keep some data here. Don't worry because your operating system will continue to work again properly.

See, that was not that hard was it?

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