Disk Cleanup

Over the years hard drives have gotten larger. Because of this regular maintenance has become less important.

It is like moving into a bigger house and not having to do spring cleaning every year. Instead a general cleaning of the closets and the garage are just not done. Unused items and clutter just start to pile up. This clutter will slow down your computer's performance. It means that your computer has to wade through more stuff to find the files you want.

The average computer user should do Disk Cleanup about once a month. Those who use their temp files and delete stuff should run it more often.

The steps for going to Disk Clean Up is the same in XP as well as Vista. To run Disk Clean Up

• Left click on the Start Orb
• Go to All Programs
  
• Then Accessories
  
• System Tools
• And finally Disk Clean Up

All you have to is walk through the wizard that takes you through the steps to cleaning out the clutter.

Note: The illustration on the right is of a computer that was taken out of the box and saw heavy use. It had not run disk clean up. The customers complaint was slow performance.