Windows loves to write files all the time to your hard drive and until you run out of room on your hard drive or ask it to clean it up, it will leave old temporary files there. Windows XP/Vista comes with a handy program that cleans them up. To clean up temporary files on your hard drive with Windows XP/Vista, go to:
Start Programs; Accessories; System Tools; Disk Cleanup; For other Windows operating systems you may have manually remove temporary files. To find out how, go to Windows help and search for "temporary files".
My desktop on my computer was like my desk - cluttered! Having a clean desktop is important enough that Windows XP now asks you to clean up unused desktop icons. If you have always ignored the prompt like I used to, you can either clean them up manually by right clicking your mouse on them and selecting delete or you can access the Windows XP/Vista program.
Or you can finish all the above work by simply clicking the follow link. The best part. It's free and safe!
Clean up temporary files to speed up computer and Internet Now
This all-in-one tool combines anti-spyware, a Registry cleaner, a privacy sweep to delete your surfing traces, a system analysis tool, and more, combined into package. It's exceedingly simple to use; run the program, then choose which feature you want to use, and it goes about its work. There's too much here to go into detail about it all, but each module is surprisingly fully featured, something you wouldn't expect in an all-in-one tool.
