Sunday, January 25, 2009

Clean Out Your PC Like You Would Your Fridge

Every once in a while you gotta clean out your PC just like you would your refrigerator. It’s important to clean out the old stuff that you’ve probably forgotten you even had. Even though software won’t get moldy like old cheese in your fridge, it can use up space and slow down your machine.

A lot of us download trial software and later realize it’s not what we wanted but forget about it. The other day, after downloading various programs that all pretty much did the same thing, I finally found the one I wanted. I went through about 5 different screen capture programs before I got one that let me capture a scrolling screen the way I wanted. Then I had to go back and remove the others, it was a bit of process. And in doing so, I noticed 3 other software trials that expired months ago that I also removed.

If you want to free up your PC’s disk space, keep up your maintenance on removing old programs that you no longer use or are now expired. This can include expired trials and software demos.

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