Clean Out Your Computer Day 2025 is on Monday, February 10, 2025: cleaning your computer?

Monday, February 10, 2025 is Clean Out Your Computer Day 2025. 12 Clean out your computer day

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In case your computer is running gradually, in case your PC fans are noisy, or maybe you’re going through crashes and poor performance, it might be that the computer is simply a little dusty.Cleanse Your Pc Day is definitely an annual indication to spread out in the casing (switch off the energy first!), and also to give everything a great, careful cleanse.

CCleaner - registry and privacy cleaner:

I assure you, this is the only program you need to clean out your computer of all your temporary files/internet history and such. Good luck.

how to clean up my computer?

CLEAN UP

from the "Run" command in the "start" menu, type "msconfig".

XP or Vista:

press windows key + letter R

enter msconfig

press enter

Then click on the "Startup" tab [ XP ]

and you will see everything that gets loaded on boot.

All of those things are candidate to turn off.

turn off ONLY those items that you yourself have added

You may need to start something later if it happens to be a service that is needed for a program or app.

But check it out and you should be able to get your boot speed back up to par.

Run disk cleanup, and de-fragmenter.

These applications are built-in with windows and will help you remove any unwanted files etc.

XP:

Disk Cleanup:

start

all programs

accessories

system tools

Disk Clean:

click disk drive [c] to clean

place a check in each box that shows any numbers on the right

CAUTION ,RECYCLE BIN WILL BE ON THIS LIST.

IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO EMPTY IT,...DO NOT CHECK IT !

click delete

click ok in confirmation dialog box

Disk Defragmenter:

start

all programs

accessories

system tools

Disk Defragmenter:

click analyze

if it shows that you need to defrag,click defrag now

Vista:

Disk Clean:

start

control panel

performance-information & tools

click Disk Clean

click disk drive [c or o.s. (c)] to clean

place a check in each box that shows any numbers on the right

CAUTION ,RECYCLE BIN WILL BE ON THIS LIST.

IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO EMPTY IT,...DO NOT CHECK IT !

click delete

click ok in confirmation dialog box

Disk Defragmenter:

start

control panel

performance-information & tools

advanced tools

open Disk Defragmenter

click analyze

click defrag if you're told you need to do so

START

CONTROL PANEL

INTERNET OPTIONS

GENERAL

HISTORY:

CLEAR AND SET TO DAYS TO KEEP = 0

in addition:

install RegSeeker from here

and delete obsolete entries

also get Ccleaner and set delete options from sidebar on left

A FASTER COMPUTER

from the "Run" command in the "start" menu, type "msconfig".

XP or Vista:

press windows key + letter R

enter msconfig

press enter

Then click on the "Startup" tab [ XP ]

and you will see everything that gets loaded on boot.

All of those things are candidate to turn off.

turn off ONLY those items that you yourself have added

You may need to start something later if it happens to be a service that is needed for a program or app.

But check it out and you should be able to get your boot speed back up to par.

Run disk cleanup, and de-fragmenter.

These applications are built-in with windows and will help you remove any unwanted files etc.

XP:

Disk Cleanup:

start

all programs

accessories

system tools

Disk Clean:

click disk drive [c] to clean

place a check in each box that shows any numbers on the right

CAUTION ,RECYCLE BIN WILL BE ON THIS LIST.

IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO EMPTY IT,...DO NOT CHECK IT !

click delete

click ok in confirmation dialog box

Disk Defragmenter:

start

all programs

accessories

system tools

Disk Defragmenter:

click analyze

if it shows that you need to defrag,click defrag now

Vista:

Disk Clean:

start

control panel

performance-information & tools

click Disk Clean

click disk drive [c or o.s. (c)] to clean

place a check in each box that shows any numbers on the right

CAUTION ,RECYCLE BIN WILL BE ON THIS LIST.

IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO EMPTY IT,...DO NOT CHECK IT !

click delete

click ok in confirmation dialog box

Disk Defragmenter:

start

control panel

performance-information & tools

advanced tools

open Disk Defragmenter

click analyze

click defrag if you're told you need to do so

faster icon load:

XP:

start

my computer

local disk drive [c]

tools

folder options

view

uncheck auto search for network folders/printers

Connections:

start

connect to

right click connection

select properties

click networking

check print/file sharing

click uninstall

[ don't do this if you use printers ]

Internet Options:

start

control panel

internet options

general

connections

check always dial default connections [ DIAL UP ONLY ! ]

SETTINGS:

check auto detect settings

DIAL UP SETTINGS:

properties

general

configure:

uncheck show terminal window

uncheck enable modem speakers [ to get rid of electronic squeal on boot up ]

general:

options:

check include windows domain

Redial: 5 times

attempts: 1 minute

idle time: never

Redial if dropped: check

General:

security:

check typical

networking:

properties:

check obtain ip address automatically

check use dns server address

[ you need to get these from your i.s.p. and add them into the 2 boxes here.

localnet is:

207-251-201-10

207-251-201-11

DIAL UP ONLY ]

Dial up settings:

Advanced:

connect 10 times

wait time 15 seconds

uncheck:

disconnect if idle

disconnect when not needed

Dial Up Options:

What's a modem initialization string?

Before your modem software dials a phone number, it initializes (inits) the modem by sending it a series (string) of commands, typically Hayes commands. These commands configure the modem's options for things like error correction, data compression, flow control, and many other parameters. The modem manual should list the Hayes commands the modem recognizes, and what effect each command has.

The important thing about modem init strings is that having the right one often makes the difference between connecting and not. Init strings are fairly specific to each modem. The string that made your friend's modem fly may not work at all for your modem.

Not all programs use simple init strings. Some use settings files, such as Windows 95 .inf files, Mac CCL modem scripts, etc.

Tip: You may also want to try one of these generic init strings:

* AT&F

* AT&F1

* AT&F&C1&D2

* AT&F1&C1&D2

modem strings:

...

Tip 2: For K56flex modems, try one of these generic init strings:

* AT&F+MS=56

* AT&F+MS=56S202=32

* AT&F1+MS=56

* AT&F1+MS=56S202=32

Where do I put the modem init string?

start

control panel

phone & modem options

modems

properties

advanced

INITIALIZATION

enter initialization string in box provided

close and reboot

in addition,install RegSeeker and delete obselete entries from here

Speed up your connection

Do you remember the days of dial-up? It used to take days to log onto

the Internet. I exaggerate, but it sure was slow.

Broadband has made the Internet much easier and more fun to use. You

don't have to suffer the modem racket and the sign-on. And pages load

faster.

Still, broadband could be much faster. For example, Japan's broadband

can be 30 times faster than ours!

If your high-speed Internet service seems pokey, try Google's Web

Accelerator. This free program will juice things.

It routes requests through Google servers. Popular pages are already

stored there. And the servers do nothing but handle Web Accelerator

traffic.

Web Accelerator works with both Firefox and IE on Windows machines.

computer cleaning?

How do you want to speed up or clean your computer?

Well, if you want to shell out some money to make it run faster you would probably need to upgrade your comp by getting some more RAM, maybe a new video card, or a external hard drive.

A Recommended External Hard Drive would be a Western Digital My Book. All you need is to plug it into your wall and the plug the USB into your Computer.

Stuff might need to be moved to another drive or deleted

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But to make it run faster for free:

Do a disk defragment this compresses your files and data, to access it click Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Defragmenter

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Also Do A Disk Clean Up

This cleans out old temporary files

To Access it Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Clean Up

Now in disk clean up there is a list of objects that need to be checked off in order to be cleaned. So here is a list of files that can be deleted safely:

Put a check mark beside:

Temporary Internet Files

Offline Webpages

Microsoft Office Temporary Files

Microsoft Error Reporting Files

Temporary Files

Compress Old Files

Now just put a check mark on those files and your set and hit Yes for everything and don't touch anything else.

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Not Required, but if you want to, or are a gamer it is good to know how to disable your Processes. Since processes do take up resources.

Close your Background Processes if you want to by going Ctrl+Alt+Delete then click Processes.

Note: ONLY End Processes with your Username (the person who owns the comp) on it.

For Example.

Username:

Jess J

Since it has your User Name in it so end it.

Do Not Processes Named:

Taskmger.exe

Explorer.exe

And Do Not End User Name Processes:

SYSTEM

NETWORK

LOCAL

If you do end a process that doesn't have your user name on it just restart the comp everything will be ok.

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It could also be you need updates for IE, so go to Windows Update, for RAM updates, go to , most others would also recommend this as well, as a good RAM Provider. Last but not least it could be your computer has Spyware or Adware or a Virus so get a free Virus Scanner like AVG, Kapersky, NOD 32. Spyware: Ad-Aware 2007.

Have A Nice Day

Ken.