In this article we'll discuss the basics of a computer tune-up and the reasons behind it.

Many computer users are aware of the enormous amount of free software, that's available online for free download and trial. Keeping that fact in mind people download and install and than maybe uninstall programs, not realizing what it does to a computer system overall.

Let's start with a few examples of such freeware and demo software that's available online: Various messengers such as AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk, Skype. Digital Imaging / Video software. Web browsers: Internet Explorer (versions 6,7,8, betas, etc...), Firefox, Chrome and many more

In a lot of cases no one has the time to go through README files that are supplied with the software to understand how it effects the system and it's settings as well as stability of the whole system. It is especially important to pay attention to the actual version number and name. If there are such keywords as Alpha or Beta version that means that the software is still in development and is not guaranteed to be a stable release version.

To a computer user that means if you do accept the risk and do install that software by accepting the installation terms you're potentially installing a software that can replace important shared libraries that other stable programs are using and that could easily cause your system to freeze and you'll end up with an infamous "Blue Screen of Death" as you see below:

Other types of software that causes instability would be device drivers: Microsoft encourages every hardware manufacturer to go through a lengthy and complicated process of certifying device drivers.

It doesn't mean that every manufacturer will, especially when new updates are released. Usually Microsoft Windows will give a warning telling the user that it's risky to proceed, but when someone absolutely needs that device to work they will ignore it and definitely not going to wait a few month for the latest driver to be released.

A good example of such situation could be someone trying to install an older printer that by itself works perfectly well and would work on Windows XP will will not on Vista unless printer manufacturer provides latest certified drivers. The installation will most likely succeed but as soon as that printer will start up and the first print job would be sent from some software to a printer computer will at best not print or possibly crash with a Blue Screen of Death. Some times Windows will not boot up until that conflict is resolved.

Here is a list of items to check during the tuneup process:

• setup phishing filter
• clean cookies
• temporary files
• unsused programs
• defragment hard drive
• defragment and optimize registry
• organize program short-cuts

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