May Old Acquaintances Be Removed!
| Category: Website Design and Development | Date: 2003-10-25 |
Say Happy New Year to Those Old Forgotten Programs! "May Old Acquaintances Be Removed!"
You are not the only one that collects and tries programs to see if you will like them, or if they will Magically change the way you use your Puter. The New Year is the best time I can think of to Clean House. Well, anytime is good but this is the best excuse I can think of.
This may be oversimplified but lets bypass the tech Speak. A couple of things happen when you install programs. First, they sit on your hard drive taking up space, and they have installed files to your "Registry". Also probably some DLLs (these are little files needed for Windows to make the programs run) in your system.ini.
So what is a DLL? Dynamic Link Library file. These go in a Windows initializing file called "system.ini". INI for Initialization File. When Windows starts it looks at the "system.ini to see what programs have to be available so they will start when you want to use them.
Windows also reads the Registry to see what programs are on your Puter and what it has to do to make them work. OH, Windows also reads your Startup Folder to see what has to start automatically and hide in the background. Also the "msconfig" to place all these programs in your "Startup".
There are a lot more things happen but lets just look at these items to see how they effect your system. Yeah, I thought the same thing. "I never use them and I have plenty of room on my hard drive so why bother removing them?"
Well, as all of this is happening and while you are looking at the Windows logo, Windows is secretly loading all of its mysterious Stuff and your mind is blank, Windows is applying all of this information to "System Resources" and slowing down the operation of your Puter. Gosh, those folks at Microsoft are smart. Or is that sneaky? Either way, you dont have the foggiest idea of what is hiding behind the Windows Startup screen. You just know it is there for a long time with that little blue bar at the bottom moving across the screen.
Yup, it is using up resources like they had no limit. If you have more Stuff than Resources Windows will just stop! Not to mention that when it does get loaded and your pretty Windows background shows up, a lot of your Resources are already used up. Now you want to run a couple of programs. Nope! Illegal Operation or Critical Error. "CRASH" and "LOCKUP".
Wait! Before you start finding Folders and overworking tour Delete Key, there are some things you need to know. Windows has a program living in your Control Panel called "Add Remove Programs". If the program is listed here and you just delete the folder in Explore, all the secret files stay on your Puter waiting for you to need the program and eating up Resources.
So start here. Click on the "Start" button, then "Settings", then double click on "Control Panel". Find the program you want to remove and select it then hit the Add/Remove button. Follow the instructions and it will try its best to get rid of the program. Not always successfully though. You may get a message that "Some files could not be removed". If you are lucky there will be a "Details" button that will give you the information about "Leftover Stuff". Write down the information and then you get to be a detective and try to find them so you can remove them manually.
After you have removed the "Old acquaintances" you should run "Scandisk" and then "Defrag" your hard drive. Removing files and programs will leave holes or spaces all over your drive slowing it down even more. You will be amazed at the performance change. "May Old acquaintances Be Removed!"
Happy Putering,
Mike Smith
About the Author
Your Internet Friend, Mike Smith, of CM/YMTC, http://cmymtc.com, is an experienced site designer, writer, and master in Ebook and Ezine creation and marketing. His affordable two-book Easy Guide package will teach you everything you need to know to produce successful Ebooks and Ezines. You can even share in the profits with his Affiliate program.
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You are not the only one that collects and tries programs to see if you will like them, or if they will Magically change the way you use your Puter. The New Year is the best time I can think of to Clean House. Well, anytime is good but this is the best excuse I can think of.
This may be oversimplified but lets bypass the tech Speak. A couple of things happen when you install programs. First, they sit on your hard drive taking up space, and they have installed files to your "Registry". Also probably some DLLs (these are little files needed for Windows to make the programs run) in your system.ini.
So what is a DLL? Dynamic Link Library file. These go in a Windows initializing file called "system.ini". INI for Initialization File. When Windows starts it looks at the "system.ini to see what programs have to be available so they will start when you want to use them.
Windows also reads the Registry to see what programs are on your Puter and what it has to do to make them work. OH, Windows also reads your Startup Folder to see what has to start automatically and hide in the background. Also the "msconfig" to place all these programs in your "Startup".
There are a lot more things happen but lets just look at these items to see how they effect your system. Yeah, I thought the same thing. "I never use them and I have plenty of room on my hard drive so why bother removing them?"
Well, as all of this is happening and while you are looking at the Windows logo, Windows is secretly loading all of its mysterious Stuff and your mind is blank, Windows is applying all of this information to "System Resources" and slowing down the operation of your Puter. Gosh, those folks at Microsoft are smart. Or is that sneaky? Either way, you dont have the foggiest idea of what is hiding behind the Windows Startup screen. You just know it is there for a long time with that little blue bar at the bottom moving across the screen.
Yup, it is using up resources like they had no limit. If you have more Stuff than Resources Windows will just stop! Not to mention that when it does get loaded and your pretty Windows background shows up, a lot of your Resources are already used up. Now you want to run a couple of programs. Nope! Illegal Operation or Critical Error. "CRASH" and "LOCKUP".
Wait! Before you start finding Folders and overworking tour Delete Key, there are some things you need to know. Windows has a program living in your Control Panel called "Add Remove Programs". If the program is listed here and you just delete the folder in Explore, all the secret files stay on your Puter waiting for you to need the program and eating up Resources.
So start here. Click on the "Start" button, then "Settings", then double click on "Control Panel". Find the program you want to remove and select it then hit the Add/Remove button. Follow the instructions and it will try its best to get rid of the program. Not always successfully though. You may get a message that "Some files could not be removed". If you are lucky there will be a "Details" button that will give you the information about "Leftover Stuff". Write down the information and then you get to be a detective and try to find them so you can remove them manually.
After you have removed the "Old acquaintances" you should run "Scandisk" and then "Defrag" your hard drive. Removing files and programs will leave holes or spaces all over your drive slowing it down even more. You will be amazed at the performance change. "May Old acquaintances Be Removed!"
Happy Putering,
Mike Smith
About the Author
Your Internet Friend, Mike Smith, of CM/YMTC, http://cmymtc.com, is an experienced site designer, writer, and master in Ebook and Ezine creation and marketing. His affordable two-book Easy Guide package will teach you everything you need to know to produce successful Ebooks and Ezines. You can even share in the profits with his Affiliate program.
http://www.makemoneyhowto.com/clkbnksale1.htm
webmaster@coyote1marketing.com
http://www.makemoneyhowto.com
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