Your computer - i.e. your PC - is a marvel of modern technology, storing thousands of files of information and supporting things only dreamed about in decades past. While this is certainly a great advancement of older technology you are still going to have to maintain your PC to obtain it best performance. That will allow you to keep the system functioning properly for years into the future. That is where this article takes its focus from - your need to do the system maintenance that Microsoft neglected to provide for.
You do not have to be a techie to do this. The instructions provided herein require absolutely no technology knowledge or training. It is even easier than dealing with your advanced TV programming. We will be talking about three areas of needed maintenance on your PC because they characterize the bulk of this needed care and cleanup. There are certainly other areas of eventually required cleanup and maintenance but normal obsolescence precludes your need to address most of these so we will skip them in this article.
The first thing you need to understand is that you are dealing with an outdated perspective from Microsoft, as none of these needed functions are performed automatically on your PC as they should be. Even though all the experts agree that any PC software maker should provide for maintenance and update functions to occur automatically, that just is not in the MS guys thinking. Therefore you will have to schedule and run these functions yourself.
Starting with applications you may be aware that modern applications normally are delivered with onboard uninstall capabilities, but not all have them and many do not function completely or correctly. This means much more than simply having unnecessary files laying around after a less than adequate uninstall - it can be harmful or dangerous. You should never uninstall an application with the delete key. If there is no uninstall with the application you will need to run the Add/Remove Programs function in your System Control Panel. There may be shared file usage involved with the application and you should not allow the uninstall function to delete these. {You should remove these files individually if you can determine which files are unnecessary. | These you will need to delete individually if you can determine which ones they are. If not, do not delete any of these shared usage files.
If your application has an onboard uninstall subsystem you should always use it when possible. Under certain circumstances you may still need to use the Control Panel function to perform the uninstall. You should know that the Control Panel will always attempt to launch an onboard uninstall function - if one exists - within the application.
Finally, you will need to clean up your system registry. If you are not technically inclined you should use commercially available registry software . It will allow you to perform the necessary registry fix operations and you can achieve the necessary Registry Repair.
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Author Resource:-> James Roberts is Senior Article Editor for What-Why-How researching and writing on numerous topics including how to use registry software and best ways to do registry repair that work fast!
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