US NATIONAL CLEAN OUT YOUR COMPUTER DAY
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For the USA this is NATIONAL CLEAN OUT YOUR COMPUTER DAY.
Observed on the second Monday in February, National Clean Out Your
Computer Day promotes taking time out of your day to do some basic housekeeping on your computer. All computers need regular organizing
and clean up. This includes the removal of old files and clutter.
It was 'born' in 2000 by The Institute of Business Technology of
Santa Clara, California.
Break it off with your EXEs
Your update installation .EXEs files, that is. Use the disk utility tool
for Macs or disk cleanup for Windows to see what's taking up space on your hard drive then easily delete junk from your downloads folder, temporary internet files, and old programs you don't use.
Back, back, back it up
Hopefully you don't wait for National Clean Out Your Computer Day to backup your data. Whether you make a copy of your data on an external hard drive
or in the cloud, today's an especially good day to preserve your computer's information.
Vaccinate against malware
Not only should you do a full scan with your antivirus software, but you should also clear out any suspicious messages in your inbox. Set up filters
to catch spam messages more effectively - viruses love email.
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