Wiley Cleaning Windows Vista For Dummies 978-0-471-78293-3 ユーザーズマニュアル

In This Chapter

Determining whether your system needs cleaning

Balancing the pros and cons of cleaning

Focusing your cleaning efforts

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y system isn’t messed up, is it? (What? Me worry?)

Yes, you should worry. Or, you should at least be aware that you may need to
worry. Computer systems easily and quickly become untidy and messed up.
If you don’t clean yours, you run the risk of big problems down the road.

Do I really need to point out the benefits of a clean computer system?
(Probably, so I do — a little later in this chapter.) Does someone need to
come into your house and point out why you need to pick up your clothes,
dust the furniture, wash the dishes, and tend to the dog? Probably not; you
know that a clean house is healthful, inviting, and safe.

It’s the same with computers. Over time, your computer can become clut-
tered with unused programs, unknown data, and unwanted visitors. With a
little effort, you can clean your system so that it runs at top form, and you
can breeze through your work faster and easier than you can on an unclean
system. In addition, clean systems are more reliable, less prone to failure, 
and easier to protect from attack by malicious programs.

Before you can begin cleaning, however, you need to recognize the need to
clean and why you should spend the time to do it.

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