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Summary: When optimizing a computer, reboot to allow cleanup changes to take effect. Reboot a computer when optimizing it with the tech tips in this free video on computer maintenance from a computer repair professional.
Bill Powers has been working on computers for more than 20 years. He has created DOS, Linux and Windows programs for customers. Powers is currently an IT technician for companies in...read more
"We have rebooted the computer and in this segment we are going to go over this and continue with the cleanup process. This will give you an idea of how to take various things off that are no longer functional off the computer. Again let's minimize windows that we are not using. When you reboot it you notice that you still have this security alert and that will be there until we put another antivirus program on. Let's go and pick an icon and in this case here is a try AOL, right click and just say delete and then you say yes and you ask yourself where did it go, it went to the recycle bin. So let's go right here again and this is Vonage and let's just delete that, yes, and as an example we get two of them and let's say yes. Now let's go to the recycle bin and click that. There they go and so you have got them in here and you can either restore them or you can say empty the whole recycle bin and they're gone and you can close out the recycle bin and that's just the icons on the screen that can clutter up the screen with a lot of icons that you are not using."