Geeks and laypeople unite, it’s National Clean Out Your Computer Day! This February 11, give your most-used devices some TLC. This holiday falls on the second Monday in February – the perfect time to get some real organizing done if you’ve already given up on your New Year’s resolutions.
Plus, don’t forget about cleaning the outside of your devices. A group of moms actually came up with this screen cleaner — free of harmful chemicals.
The Institute of Business Technology names the second Monday in February National Clean Out Your Computer Day.
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Your update installation .EXEs files, that is. Use the disk utility tool for Macs or disk cleanup for Windows to see what's taking up space on your hard drive then easily delete junk from your downloads folder, temporary internet files, and old programs you don't use.
Hopefully you don't wait for National Clean Out Your Computer Day to backup your data. Whether you make a copy of your data on an external hard drive or in the cloud, today's an especially good day to preserve your computer's information.
Not only should you do a full scan with your antivirus software, but you should also clear out any suspicious messages in your inbox. Set up filters to catch spam messages more effectively – viruses love email.
Be honest: do you save everything to your desktop or downloads folder? National Clean Out Your Computer Day is the time to get those random documents into folders by subject, making everything easier to find and saving you precious time.
Deleting unnecessary files, uninstalling unused applications, and managing the applications that run on start-up are just a couple techniques that will make your computer run like a cheetah again.
You should have an antivirus program running at all times, but a full system scan in honor of National Clean Out Your Computer Day is the best way to double check for anything that’s slipped through.
