Clear Your Hard Drive
Michael Baker asked:
Every now and then, you need to clear your hard drive. Through normal everyday use, the drive becomes cluttered, sometimes even hard to navigate. You may even come across the error message that there is not enough memory or space to perform a certain function. This normally happens at less than 1GB of room on the hard drive. Luckily, there is one thing you can do to clear your hard drive.
When using Internet Explorer, and some of the other programs and software on your computer, the system starts making duplicates of everything you are looking at, or are doing. It calls some of these items temporary, and puts them into appropriate folders in the hard drive. The truth is, you do not need all of this stuff. And after a while, it just bogs down the computer, and fills up the hard drive. You need to remove this stuff.
The other non-telling thing this does is maintain a record of everything you have ever looked at or been on the internet. This includes pictures, videos, music, website addresses, cookies, hidden cookies, spyware, and certain softwares, like Office and the Yahoo! toolbar. All of these maintain a record of what you are doing. And even when you delete them like you normally would, it does not erase them completely. So you can imagine how much stuff can accumulate over the years.
There is software out there known as Internet Eraser software. This will run a scan on your computer, find all of the stuff you do not need, and get rid of it. When I personally ran it the first time, it removed 4.6GB of stuff. And I just replaced my hard drive 4 months ago. I can only imagine what yours might look like.
So, if you are looking to clear your hd of some clutter, and even get your privacy back, then you should use an Internet Eraser program. It not only keeps you private, but will also speed up the computer, and free up some more room.
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Every now and then, you need to clear your hard drive. Through normal everyday use, the drive becomes cluttered, sometimes even hard to navigate. You may even come across the error message that there is not enough memory or space to perform a certain function. This normally happens at less than 1GB of room on the hard drive. Luckily, there is one thing you can do to clear your hard drive.
When using Internet Explorer, and some of the other programs and software on your computer, the system starts making duplicates of everything you are looking at, or are doing. It calls some of these items temporary, and puts them into appropriate folders in the hard drive. The truth is, you do not need all of this stuff. And after a while, it just bogs down the computer, and fills up the hard drive. You need to remove this stuff.
The other non-telling thing this does is maintain a record of everything you have ever looked at or been on the internet. This includes pictures, videos, music, website addresses, cookies, hidden cookies, spyware, and certain softwares, like Office and the Yahoo! toolbar. All of these maintain a record of what you are doing. And even when you delete them like you normally would, it does not erase them completely. So you can imagine how much stuff can accumulate over the years.
There is software out there known as Internet Eraser software. This will run a scan on your computer, find all of the stuff you do not need, and get rid of it. When I personally ran it the first time, it removed 4.6GB of stuff. And I just replaced my hard drive 4 months ago. I can only imagine what yours might look like.
So, if you are looking to clear your hd of some clutter, and even get your privacy back, then you should use an Internet Eraser program. It not only keeps you private, but will also speed up the computer, and free up some more room.
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How Do I Change My Home Page To Google
Michael Baker asked:
I am often asked the question: How do I change my home page to google? It is a very simple process to change your home page on your browser. Most people use either Internet Explorer or Firefox, now, so the following steps will help you change your home page in either browser you are using to Google.
If you are using Internet Explorer:
Launch Internet Explorer Click on the “Tools” tab. For IE 7, it is now located on the right hand side of the screen A pop up window will open Click on the “General” tab Where it says “Home Page”, then type in the Google website address Click OK
If you are using Mozilla’s Fire Fox:
Launch your Fire Fox browser Click on the “Tools” tab. It will be at the top of the screen Scroll down and click on the “Options” button A pop up window will open Click on the “Main” tab At the top of the window, you will see a “Start up” section Ensure the section: When Firefox starts – says “Show my home page” In the blank below, then type in the Google website address Click OK
The above method is what I do if I want to change my home page to Google. And this can actually go for any other website as well. Just follow the same steps, and change the website to whatever website you want. Now, if your home page changes unexpectedly, then you have spyware or some other program on your computer making this happen. Only you should be the one to change your browser home page.
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I am often asked the question: How do I change my home page to google? It is a very simple process to change your home page on your browser. Most people use either Internet Explorer or Firefox, now, so the following steps will help you change your home page in either browser you are using to Google.
If you are using Internet Explorer:
Launch Internet Explorer Click on the “Tools” tab. For IE 7, it is now located on the right hand side of the screen A pop up window will open Click on the “General” tab Where it says “Home Page”, then type in the Google website address Click OK
If you are using Mozilla’s Fire Fox:
Launch your Fire Fox browser Click on the “Tools” tab. It will be at the top of the screen Scroll down and click on the “Options” button A pop up window will open Click on the “Main” tab At the top of the window, you will see a “Start up” section Ensure the section: When Firefox starts – says “Show my home page” In the blank below, then type in the Google website address Click OK
The above method is what I do if I want to change my home page to Google. And this can actually go for any other website as well. Just follow the same steps, and change the website to whatever website you want. Now, if your home page changes unexpectedly, then you have spyware or some other program on your computer making this happen. Only you should be the one to change your browser home page.
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