Keeping Your PC Clean

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Keeping Your PCClean

• Inside
• Outside
• Do the right thing

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Outside

• Use a can of compressed air or a small vacuum
  cleaner to remove dust from all external parts
  you can see
• Use a soft cloth and plain water or glass cleaner
  to remove rubbed in dirt from the keyboard
• Use a soft cloth and glass cleaner to remove
  material from the monitor screen

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• Always spray any cleaner on the cloth, not the
  computer component
• If you use swabs, use foam not cotton
• Never use an abrasive on the computer or the
  monitor
• Always turn off the power before cleaning your
  computer system, including peripherals like
  printers

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Inside

• Delete unwanted files when you think about it
• Empty your Recycle Bin weekly
• Empty Internet Explorer files monthly

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• Empty IE files as follows
• With IE open, click Tools?Internet
  Options?Delete Files?Clear History?and finally OK

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Defragment

• After deleting all of those files, you need to
  remove the space on the hard drive where the
  files had resided or defragment
• Defragmentation speeds up your hard drive a great
  deal
• Defragmentation makes your programs run faster

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To defragment

• At the Windows XP desktop, click
  Start?Programs?Ac-cessories?System Tools?Disk
  Defragmenter?and Defragment

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• This process is similar in Windows 95, 2000, and
  XP
• Be prepared to wait several minutes for the
  process to complete

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Whats it look like?

• The following slide is a screen capture of a
  separate program which also defragments hard
  drives called PerfectDisk
• I usually use the Windows application or Norton
  SystemWorks application called Speed Disk
• These and others all work well

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Conclusions

• Cleaning the outside or exterior of your PC makes
  it look better to you and others
• Cleaning the inside of your PC makes you and your
  computer happy because everything works better so
  you dont end up like this lady

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Bye now!