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How to Clean Out & Organize Your Computer

System clean out on regular intervals keep your system run smooth and effective. You can follow few simple steps to clean your device to organize and optimize it in a better way. Let’s discuss some of these steps here.

Clean Bloatware:

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Bloatware comes pre-installed on your system in the form of apps and programs. There are higher chances that you will not use all these programs. Thus there remains a lot of unnecessary programs and apps on your system occupying a lot of storage space for no good reason. Bloatware also includes apps which run in the background and affect your system speed negatively. To deal with it find and remove all such unnecessary apps and programs to recover some precious storage space.

Remove duplicate files:

Next is to clean duplicate files from your system. Duplicate files accumulate on your system in the form of duplicate music files, pictures, audio & video files, documents etc. These files generate due to various reasons like files transfer, data backup, file downloading etc. Over time these files accumulate on your system in a large amount and start creating performance issues. To remove duplicate files from your system you can put manual efforts or you can use certain duplicate file remover tools for instant results. Using duplicate files remover tools you can find and delete duplicate files accurately. These tools save your time and efforts too.

Defragment disk:

Your disk gets fragmented due to prolonged use and makes your hard drive do extra work. It slows down your system speed and performance. To defragment and declutter your disk space you can use Disk Defragmenter tool. To defragment your hard disk open Disk Defragmenter by clicking on Start button > type Disk Defragmenter in the search box and select it from the results. Now select the disk you want to defragment under Current status and click on Defragment Disk. You can also use Analyze Disk option to check whether the disk needs to be defragmented or not. Disk defragmentation process may take the time to finish. You can still use your system during the defragmentation process.

Check for viruses and spyware: This is one of the most prominent ways to optimize your system performance. General symptoms of virus attack are unexpected messages and pop-ups, slower-than-normal speed, unwanted sounds occurring in the system, certain programs start automatically etc. Spyware cost serious security breach thus preventive such malicious attacks it is wise to run the anti-malware program on your system. It will detect and remove all malicious content from your system effortlessly.

Organize Startup process:

By managing startup items right you can speed up startup process. To do this in Windows Vista, 7 & prior version, go to Start button > run “msconfig” in the search box and click on it in results. Now go to Startup tab in System Configuration window. It will display all the startup items. You can uncheck the programs you don’t want to run at boot process. Apply the changes and reboot your system.

To manage startup items in Windows 8 & 10, start Task Manager by right-clicking on the taskbar and selecting Task manager. Alternatively, you can go to Start button > run task manager in the search box and selecting it from the results. Go to “more details” option given at the lower left side of the Task manager window. Now click on the Startup tab to view all programs that start with Windows. To prevent any program from running at boot process, right-click on the program and select Disable from the pop-up menu. Now Reboot your system for the changes to take effect.

You can follow these simple steps to clean out and organize your Windows computer. These simple steps can help you optimize your system speed and performance. In fact, you can save a lot of your time and efforts with better-working computer.

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