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Be nice to your PC

You know, if folks were as nice to their PC as they are to their pets we would all live in a happier world…

Perhaps once a month, give your PC a colonic irrigation - OK, not literally (although I’m sure some of you are tempted).

First off, clean out any unwanted malware that may have accumulated. Download and run Ad-Aware Personal, and Spybot. Make sure they are updated before you run them.

Then run Disk Cleanup (Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup).

Finally kick off the disk Defragmenter (Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter).

Now go and have a cup of tea leaving your PC in private for an hour or so…

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    One Response to “Be nice to your PC”

    1. cuddly col Says:

      This is better than a visit to the gym and paying vast amounts of money to increase my muscles and tone myself up. Running up and down stairs carrying an old PC certainly has caused me to be less puffing for breath, partly because I keep wondering where I should leave it and find that the place I had left it is not really suitable, thank you for the advice and fitness improvement.


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