Clean Computer Hard Drive

Easily clean your computer's hard drive

Cleaning the computer's hard drive can speed up performance by as much as 500%!

Use SecureClean to:

• Increase the speed of your computer
  
  
• Increase your computer's reliability
  
  
• Find and erase past web surfing history
  
  
• Clean out unsolicited spam, pop-ups, and other questionable data that may be lingering on your computer
  
  
• Locate and remove unneeded traces of previous online shopping, like your name, address, phone number, etc
  
  
• Find and erase both current and corrupted Internet cookie and history data
  
  
• Find, recover, or permanently erase previously deleted files
  
  
• Permanently erase previously deleted messages lingering in e-mail archives from popular e-mail programs like America Online, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, and Eudora
  
  
• Safely and reliably reclaim wasted disk space
  
  
• If you are getting rid of your computer and need to know what to do first, check out WipeDrive or look at our how-to library.
  
  

If you clean your computer hard drive, it could increase the reliability and speed while reducing the errors that can occur while running the computer. Using software tools allow you to clean computer hard drives, even if you are not technically minded.

Several software tools exist that clean computer hard drives by systematically going to the proper location that junk files are stored. The storage processes of many computers leave large possibilities that a system could crash. Keeping this information clean can increase the life span of your computer.

Here is a list of steps that you can perform to clean your computer hard drive manually:

• Use the "Disk Clean Up" tool
  
  
1. Click "START"
   
   
2. Then go to "Programs"
   
   
3. Then go to "Accessories"
   
   
4. Now go to "System Tools" and click on the "Disk Cleanup" utility icon listed in this menu
   
   
This utility will give you a variety of temporary file cleaning options.


• Use the Find or Search feature built into Windows.
  Follow the steps below to find the search tool:
  
  
  1. Click "START"
     
     
  2. Click "Search"
     
     
  3. Select "For Files and Folders".
     
     
  Here you can search for types of files you would like to remove. For example, you can search for "*.tmp" which will find all temporary files. Now you can see all of the temporary files and determine which files to delete.
  
  Here is a list of some common search codes
  you can type this in the search box exactly as you see here:
  
  
  • *.tmp
    
    
  • *.temp
    
    
  • *.mp3
    
    
  • *.doc
    
    
  • *.~
    
    
  • ~.~
    
    
  After searching for theses file extentions you can determine if the file is needed or not.

This may seem a little difficult or just plain not fun. Powerful software tools can take the pain and trouble away from cleaning your computer.