Degunking Windows 7

Finalize the Organizational Process

You’ve deleted, moved, and copied data and have really changed how your computer is organized. That part of degunking is about complete. From here we’ll focus more on the computer and less on the data, and tackle topics such as optimizing the hard drive, cleaning up Internet Explorer and your e-mail program, securing your computer and network, and resolving the problems associated with media, syncing, and error messages. That means we need to do a couple of things to finalize this part of the degunking process. We need to run Disk Cleanup once more, run Disk Defragmenter, and then verify that Disk Defragmenter will run on a schedule in the future. We also need to discuss how to stay degunked—at least as far ...