Hey gang - your friendly Portland Computer Repair guy here again. After my last entry about tuning up your computer I feel like it might be a good idea to actually tell you some ways to do that. It's a crazy concept but I think we can roll with it.

First off, temp files build up on your system like barnacles on a pirate ship, and every once in awhile it's nice to clean 'em up. I recommend two utilities for this, both of them free. First is Ccleaner. When you install it, make sure you don't install all the add-on crap, just choose the options like I have here:

Once it's installed, launch it from the icon it's placed on your desktop, and choose options like this:

Then click "Run cleaner" and away it goes. 

Next go ahead and do a registry cleanup by clicking "registry" on the side then "Run cleaner". Go ahead and just say yes to whatever it asks you, cleaning the registry with CCleaner is very safe (as opposed to a number of other registry cleaners out there).

Next up we're going to hit your rig with a blast of ATF Cleaner, which sometimes finds a few things CCleaner doesn't. Get ATFCleaner here. Go ahead and launch it from wherever you downloaded it to, and select every option but "Cookies" (most people like to keep their cookies so they don't have to re-login to every website they visit) and click "go".

That should get rid of a lot of the nasty plaque that builds up on Windows over time and keep your system chugging along.  Until next time!