Posts published on July 8, 2016

Clean Out Your Computer For Student Success

By David Gutierrez

Of course you should use computer. It untiringly simplifies students’ life, allows saving time when you need to prepare paper works, researches, essays, etc. But sometimes we forget to ‘clean out’ it – to delete unnecessary files and documents. Do you notice, that your device began to work slower, ‘hang out’ or make a suspicious sound? If you faced with blue screen of death, the situation is quite bad. All this staff can cause huge problems in your studying. Always remember, that without cleaning own  PC or laptop you may you lost an opportunity to do your lessons. So you should clean out and organize your PC. In summer you are almost free from studying, so you have time to do it.

You may need several applications to save you time. But remember that your computer is not the only device, that should be regularly cleaned up. Keep in order your smartphone too. Use Samsung Smart Switch, when you need to move files from one device to another.

How to ‘put in order’ a computer

This process consists of 3 steps:

  1. First of all you should find out duplicate files. Probably you will be surprised, how many duplicate files and downloads contains your device. It’s a campus life! Usually such files appear when you buy music from special services like iTunes, for instance.

You may look for such ‘reiterations’ manually by clicking ‘All my files’. But it takes too much time and there is a big chance to miss something unnecessary, as the same files on your computer could be saved under different names. We recommend you to try some third-party apps. They quickly detect duplicate files and move them into the Trash. There are free services, like Duplicate Cleaner or DupeGuru (supported by Windows), and several paid.

Then pay attention to your system’s cache. It should be cleared too, because your device produces a lot of temporary files for fast retrieving information that you need. Clean a cache, and your PC will work faster. For Windows 8 and 10 use app Disk Clean-up, that can be found on the Control Panel.

Do not forget about clearing a folder ‘Downloads’. There can be «hidden» tons of old PDFs, pictures, torrent links and other files. That’s why it’s better to take books from libraries.

At last, make sure that there are no trackers and viruses in your computer.

  1. Sorting. It means, your files should be allocated into different thematic folder. Execute these steps:
  • combine duplicate folders into a single folder. For Windows and Mac use a combination ‘Copy/Cut+Paste’.
  • find a place for photos. It may be the Downloads folder (if you tend to download from social media or email), folders for keeping files from phones and digital cameras, or a cloud storage.
  • save all documents in the proper folder. It is obvious, but sometimes we see single documents in folders with music or in folder ‘Downloads’.
  • place music and video in a right folder. It is obvious too, but many users often forget about this.
  1. Finally, you need to delete all you don’t need any more.

Quite simple, isn’t it? These actions help you to free a place for storage and make the computer’s performance better. So hurry up to do it before you PC breaks.

Author’s bio:

David Gutierrez has worked in the field of web design since 2005. Right now he started learning Java in order to get second occupation. His professional interests defined major topics of his articles. David writes about new web design software, recently discovered professional tricks and also monitors the latest updates of the web development.