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2 10 Steps To a Faster PC A Beginners Guide to Speeding Up a Slow Computer Laura Bungarz This book is for sale at This version was published on ISBN This is a Leanpub book. Leanpub empowers authors and publishers with the Lean Publishing process. Lean Publishing is the act of publishing an in-progress ebook using lightweight tools and many iterations to get reader feedback, pivot until you have the right book and build traction once you do Laura Bungarz

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4 Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Desktop Introduction Chapter 2: The Recycle Bin The Recycle Bin: What Is It?

5 Introduction If you re reading this book chances are good you have a slow computer at home. Here s the short list on how to tell if you have a slow computer. 1. You can go make coffee, drink a cup or two and come back and your computer is still loading up. 2. You hate your computer and consider it more of a giant size paper weight than a usable machine. 3. Your computer is so cluttered with stuff you can t find anything. 4. Your hard drive is full to the brim and you have no idea what to do with it all. 5. Your blood pressure goes up at simply the thought of using your computer. If any of these apply to you, you re in the right place. What causes a slow computer? Well slow computers can be cause by a lot of things. A common culprit is age. Like anything, as it gets older computers tend to slow down and parts start to wear out. But if your computer isn t suffering from old age just yet, then chances are good your hard drive is just full of stuff and most of it you probably don t even realize is there. You see every time you use your computer, install software, add or remove or change files, you create what are called temporary files. There is nothing you can do about this, it s something that happens on every computer but it can be fixed. You have the ability to delete those temporary files and later on in the book I m going to show you how to do just that. Once the clutter is gone and your hard drive is clean(er) you ll find that it will speed up considerably. Think of it this way - try running in waist high water. How fast can you go? Not very right? Well the same is true with your hard drive. At some point it will get buried in so much stuff that it just won t be able to go very fast. Not that it doesn t want to, it just can t. What will I get from this book? Well you re going to learn how to clean up your computer and I ll give you the strategies to keep it that way. I promise, this first time around will be the most painful because your computer is at it s most cluttered state right now. If you keep up with it and do these things regularly your computer will stay clean and running smoothly for a long time to come. 1

6 Introduction 2 What if it s still slow? The last couple of chapters in the book are about upgrading the RAM and buying a new computer. Sometimes no amount of fixing is going to make that old computer go any faster. So I ll give you a bunch of tips and tricks to think about as you head down to the local computer shop to buy a new one. But don t fret, it s not as scary as it sounds!

7 Chapter 1: The Desktop Introduction In this chapter we re going to talk about how to cleanup your Desktop. The Desktop is the main screen from which you generally run your computer. But it s also the most common place to store new files and folders. This means it gets cluttered and quickly. Through this chapter we ll clean up the Desktop and learn how to move around all of those files and folders so that they are organized and you can find things again. What Is It? The Desktop is the screen you generally work from. It s the main screen where the Start Menu hides and for this reason, it tends to become a popular storage spot. It gets quickly filled with random files, shortcuts and icons from programs you have installed over time. It s also the screen that gets personalized with pictures of your kids, your dog, your vacation, a beach or a rainbow. But because of all of the clutter, usually the picture is at best hard to see and at worst completely covered by stuff. Many of us, myself included, are guilty of allowing our Desktops to become over run. It is a very convenient location after all. But this can be problematic for a couple of reasons. First and most obvious, it s distracting. If you ve put a picture of the kids or the dog or your last vacation on your Desktop screen, it can be nearly impossible to actually see the picture if the Desktop is covered. Secondly, it does actually slow down your computer, especially in the morning when you first turn it on. All of those pictures, images and folders need to load up. This slows down the startup process. If you re already going for coffee after hitting the power button, cleaning the clutter off the Desktop is the first step in speeding up your computer. How To Fix It? First we need to look at what we can delete safely and what needs to be sorted out. Shortcuts: These are pictures with little arrows in the bottom left hand corner. Below is an example of a shortcut. You can delete these safely. They do not affect the program they link to because they are simply a link to a given program. It is nothing more than a fancy link that can be safely removed, especially for programs you don t use all the time. Examples of shortcuts you might consider leaving on your Desktop include one for your browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome), one to the game you play all the time, or maybe to programs such as Microsoft Word or Excel. 3

8 Chapter 1: The Desktop 4 An example of a Shortcut. Notice the arrow in the bottom left hand corner. Common Shortcuts you don t need on your Desktop because you ll almost never open these programs directly include your anti-virus program (this should be running in the background constantly), Adobe Acrobat Reader and any other program where you re more likely to open a file verses create a new one. Icons: An icon doesn t have an arrow like a Shortcut does. Common icons include the Recycle Bin, My Computer and Network. You can remove these as long as you know how to get to them via other means. If you don t though, it s best to leave them on the Desktop where they are easy to find. A little later I ll show you how to put these common icons back on your Desktop if they have gone missing. The Recycle Bin icon. Files and Folders: You probably have pictures, documents, other files, maybe some folders on your Desktop. It s time to sort those out. If you don t remove them completely, which is ideal, at least get them all into 2 or 3 file folders that aren t taking up the entire Desktop and don t take as long to load up in the morning. We will talk about how to sort them out a little later in the chapter. An example of a folder icon. How To Fix It First, delete all the stuff you don t need. You can start by removing program shortcuts. Remember, those are the pictures with the arrows in the bottom left hand corners. They don t affect the programs they are meant to open. So feel free to delete all the ones you don t need. Keep the ones that link to

9 Chapter 1: The Desktop 5 the programs you use all the time though. Your computer should be setup so that it makes sense for you and a few shortcuts to your most frequently used programs is part of that setup. Tip: You can control whether or not shortcuts are placed on the Desktop when you install software. Always do the advanced installation of the software you use and make sure that you un-check options such as Desktop shortcuts or icons. This will help keep your computer cleaner without any additional effort on your part. If you have folders and pictures on your Desktop that you don t need you can right-click on them and send them to the Recycle Bin. If you have the Recycle Bin on your Desktop you can also left click and hold on to those items and simply drag them on top of the Recycle Bin then just let go of the mouse button. This will put them in there as well. You can do more than one item at a time using this method by simply left clicking on the Desktop and dragging. You will essentially draw a box around a group of items. Now click and hold on the box and drag it over the Recycle Bin the same as before. If there are things there that you need you can move them to their correct locations. If you need help with that process hang in with me until a little later where I ll talk about how to sort out all of that clutter that you actually want to keep. Extras Once a week clean off your Desktop. Take 5 minutes and shuffle all of the stuff that s collected on your Desktop around. It s kind of like cleaning off your desk at work on Monday morning or even Friday before you leave so that you can start with a clean slate come Monday morning. If you get into the habit now it ll be easy to do the next time. Summary Keeping the Desktop clean will help speed up your computer and make your screen nicer to look at. While using it as temporary storage when you download something or start something new can be convenient, it s important not to get too lazy about moving all of that stuff around once the immediate need is over. If you get into the habit of cleaning up your Desktop once a week it will be much less of a chore and you may find your computer starts a little faster in the morning.

10 Chapter 2: The Recycle Bin The Recycle Bin: What Is It? The Recycle Bin icon. This is your computer s version of a trash can. It s main purpose is to collect the stuff you don t need or want anymore, the same as your trash can at home. But it also has a secondary function. You have a trash can at home to help keep you organized. It s designed to collect stuff over a period of time that you then take out to the curb for somebody else to pick up and take to the dump. In reality, your computer doesn t need those extra steps. The computer could be set up to simply delete everything permanently from your hard drive. The Recycle Bin is there to catch the mistakes that you make as you use your computer on a daily basis. It s a safe guard, a protection system put in place to make sure you don t accidentally lose those important documents, pictures and videos. The Recycle Bin is no more than a file folder with a fancy icon and a special purpose. Is your Recycle Bin missing from your Desktop? In some of the newer versions of Windows the Recycle Bin is missing from the Desktop along many of the other older default icons that used to be there. Do you want to put your Recycle bin back? Here s how: 1. Right click on your Desktop. Make sure to stay off of any shortcuts, icons, or files that are on your Desktop. 6

11 Chapter 2: The Recycle Bin 7 The menu that you get when you right-click on your Desktop. 1. Left click on Personalize. 2. The Control Panel will pop up. Now look at the left side of that box. You ll see it says Change Desktop Icons. Click on that one. The dialogue box that comes up when you click on Personalization in the menu. 1. Now check off the Desktop icons you want to put back. You can use any or all of them, there is no right or wrong answer here.

12 Chapter 2: The Recycle Bin 8 The Recycle Bin icon. 1. When you re done click Apply and then Okay. Recovering Accidentally Deleted Files The Recycle Bin is doing it s job when it traps and holds things you accidentally delete. But how do you get them out of there once they are in there? It s not as hard as you might think. The Recycle Bin is just a fancy folder after all. Right-click on the Recycle Bin and select Open from the menu. Once you do that a file box will open up and you ll see the contents of your Recycle Bin. The Recycle Bin menu that comes up when you right-click on the Recycle Bin. It looks just like any other folder you might open. Go and find the file you want to recover, rightclick on it and select Restore from the menu. The file will go back to the same spot it was deleted

13 Chapter 2: The Recycle Bin 9 from. So if you deleted it from Documents, that s where it will be restored to. If you deleted it from your Desktop, that s where you ll find it. You can restore as many or as few files and folders from your Recycle Bin as you want to. Important Note The Recycle Bin won t catch files that are too big. For example if you try to delete a massive 10 gigabyte file, the Recycle Bin won t catch it, it will be permanently deleted. There is a safeguard in place though. Instead of going to the Recycle Bin, an extra warning pops up telling you that you are about to permanently delete the file. It s your job to read the dialogue box when it opens up! Emptying Your Recycle Bin Okay, so this may seem a little obvious. Kind of like your trash can at home you actually have to empty your Recycle Bin from time to time. It really isn t designed for storage and it s really easy to do. You will have noticed with the Recycle Bin icon I created, that there was stuff in my Recycle Bin. How can you tell? The trash can appears as full. That s how you know there s something in it. When your Recycle Bin is empty the trash can icon will change to an empty bin. So to empty the bin just right-click on the trash and this time instead of opening the bin go ahead and click Empty Recycle Bin. Everything in there will now disappear permanently. Feel free to double check your Recycle Bin before you empty it to make sure you re comfortable with what s being deleted. Summary The Recycle Bin is designed as a way to keep you from permanently deleting things you actually need. It s handy to keep on your Desktop and it s important to empty it regularly. It s not storage space! Keep it clean!

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