When you start cleaning your house don't forget your electronic devices. Files on your computer is like that left over meatloaf in the back of the fridge, they need to be throw out.
First you can start with pictures. Because computers are so good at crashing and with all the viruses you should remove all the photos you don't want to lose. Put them on a flash drive, CD, DVD or an SD card. Keep them labeled well so that you can get what you need when looking rather than going through all those pictures. It is a bit time consuming but it is better than losing all the pictures.
There are other files that should be deleted. Depending on your virus protection you can do computer maintenance each month, week or even every day.
Things to get rid of:
Temp Internet Files
Window Temporary Files
Internet history
Clear the cache on your internet browser
Start Up Manager
You should make sure that you have a good virus protector and if it does not come with a Tune Up program think about getting one to help with other files
Other things to get off your computer, all that music and videos. Invest in an external hard drive to store music just know that a virus can attack it and it can crash also.
The music and videos will slow your computer down.
Remove programs you don't use. They just take up space you computer resources. There are several programs out there that can help or look it up on the internet for your Operating System (Windows XP, 7, etc.)
Just another cleaning project that you should think about.
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