Spring Cleaning

 It's that time of year when you clean out. Your room, your house, your closet, whatever. But that doesn't mean that should limit it to the real world. Take it to your digital life as well. Here's how:
Organize- Take all those files that are scattered around your hard drive and centralize them. Take all of those music files you got off of the Interweb and put them all in one place. Create sub-folders for all of your specifi

c fil es.
Delete- Don't be afraid to get rid of old files. It's possible to save quite of a bit of Hard Disk space from just deleting old files. Take for example, when I cleared out my downloads folder, as well some excess files in my documents I saved just over 3 GB of space! I haven't yet cleared out my temp folder but I imagine that will get me a few more megabyes
Defrag- Most computer guru's recommend that you defrag every six months to a year. What a better time to defrag your hard drive? It'll speed up search times as well as launching applications and files.
Upgrade- Aren't getting enough millage out of your Hard Drive or your RAM? Maybe it's time to upgrade. Considering that Hard Drive space is something like 1 dollar for 3.5 GB there's no reason why you shouldn't go from that sturdy 80 GB to a 250 GB or even 400 GB. I'm not saying that everyone should upgrade, but if you need more storage space, there really is no reason not to get more.
Backup- Continuing that line of thought, you could keep the small hard drive in your computer but invest in an external hard drive for backup. Backup is one of the most critcal thing that you must do with your data. Do it at least 1 once a year, if not sooner.
If you want to go a  step farthur, open your case and clean out all the gunk and stuff that's built up in they're over the past few months. Use these instructions to properly clean your computer without damaging it.
These are the steps that I take to do my "spring cleaning". I hope they helped!