Simple Computer Maintenance

Common Computer Clean up Tasks

• Disk Clean – up

• Anti-virus scan

• Deleting Cookies

Disk Clean-up1. Click Start,

All Programs,

Accessories,

System Tools,

Disk Clean up

Disk Clean-up

2. Select the drive you want cleaned up. In this case it is the (C:) Drive

Click OK

Click down arrow to access (D:) Drive

Click OK

Once Scandisk has finished, you mayClose all open windows.

Remove Cookies, Cache and Temporary Files

1. Open Internet Explorer

Go to Start

All Programs

Internet Explorer

Remove Cookies, Cache and Temporary Files

2. Once in Internet Explorer, click

Tools,

Internet Options

Remove Cookies, Cache and Temporary Files

3. This will bring up the window where you will need to click buttons

#1 (Delete Cookies) and

#2 (Delete Files).

After each button is clicked, a window will ask if you are sure you want to delete.

Remove Cookies, Cache and Temporary Files

4. Click the OK buttons for deleting Cookies and Files

Optional: Clear History

Run an Anti-Virus Scan

1. Go to Start

All Programs

Trend MicroOffice

Scan Client

Run an Anti-Virus Scan

2. Check boxes for both Local Disk (C:) and (D:)

3. Click Clean

Run an Anti-Virus Scan

4. Sample Message that task

has been completed.

AntiVirus