Some simple tuning gubbins you can do is to use the built in system maintainance tools to clean up. Such as the rather exciting sounding "Disk Cleanup" tool you can find on your start menu. Run it, tick as many or as few boxes as you like and press OK. I use this gizmo about once a month to keep on top of things.
Another toy you can find on your start menu is the Disk Defragmenter. This is a little bit like organising all the cr@p in your loft! Putting it in sensible places and grouping similar rubbish together.
It takes a long time to run, and it's very intensive work for your hard disk drive. So I only do this twice a year.
You might also want to run an error check against your hard drives. Just in case they're starting to degrade.
Usually, you'll have to reboot to do a full scan, and depending on a few things, it can take a long time to complete!
To start these tools, right click on the drive you'd like to scan from My Computer and choose Properties.
You'll find the cleanup tool on the General tab, and the other two in the Tools tab.
I could do with a nice cup of tea and a sit down after that.
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