The second Monday of February is

National Clean Out Your Computer Day.

Those in charge of server space and speed may be thrilled about this holiday.  The rest of us aren’t.  But we will be IF we celebrate it by cleaning out our computers.

That’s because we will spend less time tapping our foot, twiddling our thumbs and screaming at our computers to hurry up.  AND if we do an extra good job, we will spend less time searching for where we put things.

If you have an IT person, he/she can most likely make recommendations about where to start.  In case you don’t have one of those, here are a few suggestions.

Jace Shoemaker-Galloway suggests we start  e-mail.  He says to delete:

• junk mail
• downloads that are no longer needed
• bookmarks you longer need
• programs you no longer use
• cache
• shortcuts you no longer use

He offers more suggestions in  It’s Clean Out Your Computer Day: Clean up that computer clutter.

The authors of Clear Blog recommend we:

• back up all data and reinstall your operating system.  They say, “A pain, but it works”, in terms of speeding things up.
• update virus software and run a scan
• clean the computer itself – keyboard, screen, etc

Look for more detail, along with encouragement and how to’s of  clutter prevention in Today is Clean Out Your Computer Day.

You’ll find more clutter prevention ideas plus a reminder to de-fragment your computer in this article from the Hired Guns site:  National Clean Out Your Computer Day.

For those who are extra-ambitious, how about cleaning out hard drives, portable drives, etc.

And then – does anybody still have floppy discs laying around?

How about it?

Will you celebrate this one with me?

Get your team involved?

Give a prize?

Got any tips on where and how to start a task that is daunting for many?

 

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