Clean-up

A tidy house is a happy house, and the same applies to your PC. Getting rid of all the junk and unnecessary files that build up over time will give you a much more efficient machine. Everything wants a piece of Windows XP. Every application you install, web page you visit or email you download leaves pieces of itself all over your system, all of which takes up valuable hard drive space and can even slow down your PC's per formance. Regular house cleans are necessary to clean out the detritus and they have the added benefit of giving your system that straight-from-the-shop feel all over again. In issue 10’s lead feature we unear thed
the 50 best ways to use Windows XP to give itself a good old wash behind the ears and get running at full pelt again, without any of the accumulated rubbish from months of PC usage slowing it down. You can discover which files are safe to delete, how to completely remove an old application from your system, how to pick
and choose which programs and processes are loaded whenever you boot up your PC, which types of file take up the most space and impact most heavily on per formance and how to improve hard drive efficiency.
Nothing's too complicated either. Most of these tips can be carried out in just a few seconds and one decent clean up a month should keep your PC running smoothly, leaving you with tons of space to install new
programs and store your documents.