Personally, I work my computer like a young mother with a house full of kids 12 to 18 hours a day.

That mother needs to unwind at the end of the day.

For those of you, like me, who can’t seem to let go of their Windows XP, here are 9 Tips in the order they should be finished in that will help to keep your computer happy and working without complaining:

1. This is so simple I shouldn’t have to say it, Keep What Ever E-Mail Program You Use Cleaned Out. I have clients who are always complaining, but they absolutely refuse to get rid of years and years of accumulated e-mail.

2. Make sure you have a good anti virus program (Only one on each computer please), have it up to date, and auto monitoring.

3. Be sure you have a good anti spy ware program (Only one per computer), make sure it is up to date, and auto monitoring.

4. Run a Disk Clean Up Daily (Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Clean Up – a box opens – make sure each box is checked, click ‘OK’ – a box pops up – Click Yes).

5. Delete Cookies and Cached Files Daily (Start, Control Panel -if you haven’t done that yet, click ‘Switch To Classic View’, Internet Options – a pop up box will appear – Delete Cookies, Click OK, Click Delete Files – check ‘Delete All Offline Content’ – Click OK, Now Set Your Clear History to no more than 7 Days – if you have never used it for a week you probably will not miss it – Click OK)

6. A very important step almost everyone forgets: Empty The Prefetch Folder (Start, My Computer, ‘C’ , Windows, Prefetch Folder, Edit, Select All, File, Delete – pop up box appears – Click Yes, Close Windows Window)

7. Empty Recycle Bin. For the sake of brevity, I am akingthe assumption that everyone knows where it is and knows how to empty it.

8. Scan Hard Drive ‘C’ (Start, My Computer, Right Click ‘C’ – box opens – Click Properties at the bottom – another box opens – Click Tools, Click Check Now, Make sure both ‘Automatically fix file system errors’ and ‘Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors’ are checked, Click Start. Get a cup of java (oh, black, thank you) and Wait ! You definitely want to have a good registry cleaner to scan the system and fix any problems.

9. Defrag Computer (Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter – window opens – Select ‘C’ Drive, Click Defragment). Pop a top and Wait !

The last two steps (8 and 9) can take awhile if they have not been done recently. I finish this whole routine on my computer just before I stop work for the day everyday.

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