Week 6 Posting - Removing Temporary and Untouched Files

   

The longer you use your computer the more and more it can be bogged down by temporary files, cached data, and files or downloads you have not touched in a while building up in the background. These files start to take up valuable space on your drives and can start to affect performance. Thankfully most modern operating systems have tools that can help you clean up your system. For Windows you have the "Disk Cleanup" option that scans your files, browser caches, and old system updates that you do not need anymore. MacOS has "Storage Management", which offers a similar service. Both will give you the option to remove the files you want to without having to lose anything you think you will need. 

  There are also other options that are not prebuilt into the system. You can manually go through and clear out your download folder. You can sort your files by "last accessed" or "last modified" and see what files have been untouched and probably worth removing. There are third party options like CCleaner or CleanMyMac that you can download that will give you a automated scanning and cleaning options if you want a less involved approach. Cleaning out these files does not just free up space, but can alos improve the speed of the system, reduce conflicts with different software, and give your PC more life. 

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