Computer Maintenance... (speed up your computer!)

Most of you will find that computer performance tends to get slowed down over time!
Some simple maintenance every 2-4 weeks (depending on computer use and programs installed) will only take you about 10-30 minutes and can be performed at any knowledge level.

It will help to keep your computer running smoothly.
If you follow this guide, you are bound to see a noticeable improvement in system performance.
This tutorial is fairly basic and something all computer users should do.

Remove all programs you no longer use or knew about:
Over time, you may have installed games or utilities that you forgot about or no longer use. Why waste the space? Go to your control panel, AddRemove programs and uninstall anything you no longer use. Occasionally you will find a toolbar or other item you were unaware was there!

Cleaning your hard drive of unneeded files:

One of the biggest problems is hard drive useage. Your hard drive has more moving parts then any other part in your computer and is constantly adding, deleting and reorganizing files. Because of this, you need to clean your computers hard drive. A great tool for this is CCleaner (Crap Cleaner). Its free and available here:

Code:

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Simply open CCleaner, and the cleaner section should be open by default.
Click run cleaner and wait.
Thats it, your done!
It is a very safe tool and has never damaged any of the hundreds of computers I have run it on.