Top 5 Tips for Spring Cleaning your PC

Spring is finally here, and while we clean our homes, but also the time to clean our digital lives. Here are 5 tips to keep your PC clean and beautiful.
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Spring is finally here, and while we clean our homes and throw things we do not need, it is important not to neglect the cleanliness of our digital lives.

The files can quickly add up and the performance of the team and how easy it is to find things. Here are some tips to keep your Windows PC clean.

1. Perform a Scan Results

This is something that happen regularly, but if not, the user must perform a virus scan on your computer to make sure that it is free of malware. You can not only malware invade your privacy, steal your data and ruin your digital life, but can slow a computer considerably and down. AVG Anti-Virus is still one of the most popular anti-virus and is very easy to use.

2. Perform a Disk Cleaner

AVG also offers what it described as "PC TuneUp", which can be very useful in the removal of old, unused files and could speed up your computer. The TuneUp and other cleaning disc is essentially to do, remove the old temporary files from programs that are not needed, are used. There are many, many teams after a few months of use of files would be surprised, so it is very important albums cleaner.

3. Uninstall old programs

Go to Control Panel software. Must have a long list of all the programs that are installed on your computer or came preinstalled. However, it is important to be a little careful here have that you do not want, anything you need or what's important to keep your computer running. However, if you have a game that was not installed played in six months, you may find it time to get rid of, get it to release on your computer. There are probably a number of programs that you have never heard of, and may not know what they are doing - it is better not to touch it, if you know what you are doing.

4. Put things in folders

Cleaning a computer is not always about deleting files, can be for your business. Although not essential to the way the computer works, organize files in folders can greatly help to be more productive. It is easier to find things when necessary, it seems even more beautiful than a long list of unorganized files.

5. Clear the history and cookies

If your computer browser and collected all can erase data and the speed of your system. These small files accumulate over time, and if left untreated for a long time, things can slow down tremendously.

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