How to Clean Up a Desktop

Video Transcript

"My name is Pete D'Alessandro. This is Expert Village. We're still organizing our computer here, and what we've done now is streamlined the operating system a little bit, just got rid of some of the extra memory eaters. What I'd like to do is show you guys how to clean up the C drive and the desktop, and get rid of some of these extra files and folders that kind of eat up memory and make things hard to find, make things disorganized. What I'm going to do, most of us save pretty much everything to our desktop. It's one of the habits we have to change if we want to stay organized. Have specific places for whatever video files you're working with, audio files, your downloads, your software. Have an entire folder for install files. When you reboot or lose data or whatever, to recover you should just have everything in one place, easy to backup easy to restore. But what I?m going to do now is just to clean up the operating system, just to clean up memory. I'm going to grab everything I can on the desktop that's not nailed down, and that's pretty much everything. Draw in big boxes, and drag it into one folder. Just click 'Documents'. No magic science in that, I'm just getting it away. The computer is really reading all the icons all the time, so it's just one more thing to kind of eat up a little bit more memory than we need to. The computer will tell you you're moving files. We continue to do that, just get everything put away."