Clean up your machine with the help of Degunking Windows

After you've helped your users clean up their computers and adopt a regimen of organization and maintenance, you'll hear fewer complaints about slow machines and poor performance.

Computer users (ourselves included) tend to be less than proactive when it comes to keeping our machines optimized. But unnecessary apps, temp files, poorly organized data files, and lax housekeeping can seriously degrade PC performance. This sample chapter from Degunking Windows offers a glimpse of the various ways computers become cluttered and inefficient and provides an outline of cleanup and maintenance strategies your users can put to work. The chapter's 'Degunking Checklist' includes these items:

• Make sure you understand the four basic processes involved in degunking Windows.
• Understand why you need a strategy for dealing with pesky temporary files.
• See how your Desktop and menu system are two places where gunk can build up if you are not careful.
• Learn how hard drive segmentation and limited drive space can impact the performance of your drive.
• Understand how unorganized data can gunk up your machine.

Title: Degunking Windows
ISBN: 1-932111-84-0
Published: 2004; Paraglyph Press
Authors: Joli Ballew and Jeff Duntemann
Chapter: Chapter 1, Why Is My Computer All Gunked Up?


Join the discussion of this download.