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The first step to cleaning a windows system is to install and run spybot search and destroy. Just about every windows system is infected with some type of spyware which gathers information about your system and what you do with it.

Next I look at their installed programs, I make a list the rarely used programs and call the client to see if they use them, if not I uninstall them.

To see your installed programs go to the start menu, control panel, and click add, remove programs. Getting rid of the ones you don’t use is essential to a clean windows system.

Now here is the big thing, Windows uses a registry which stores information about everything on your computer. The registry being bloated or having invalid, corrupt, or missing files causes most of the problems that the average windows system user mistakes for a virus, like lag or frequent crashes, and constant error messages.

To fix these problems you need software like registry easy, it’s very simple to use but you actually have to use it. Usually when I run this program on a clients PC for the first time it comes up with 1000-2000 errors, it only takes one to cause a problem.

To clean a windows system, I charge $40.00 I don’t like to do this because registry easy only cost $39.95, and basically does all the work for you, but I can tell people till I am blue in the face and they just don’t take my advice they would rather keep paying me and I can’t work for free.

I honestly hope you take my advice and clean your own PC, use repair shops if this doesn’t help. Enjoy your clean windows system.

When something goes wrong with your taskbar, it can really ruin your computer experience. Strange taskbar behavior warrants immediate repair of the taskbar. The taskbar is like the air we breathe in computer world. We rely on it to get even the simplest task done. The good news is that this dilemma is easy to resolve.

Just Drag and Click the Taskbar

Have you ever had your taskbar end up on the right-hand side of your screen or way up at the top? It’s kind of like an American going to England and being expected to drive on the left side of the road or vice versa. You can do it, but would probably prefer not to. We are creatures of habit, and this feature really doesn’t seem to be preferred by most average computer users.

Just drag and click the toolbar back down to the bottom and right click on that baby. Now check “Lock the Toolbar.” You should be good to go.

How to Find a Hidden Taskbar

Sometimes, the taskbar will disappear when you run your mouse over it. Even better, you can’t even see it on your desktop anywhere.

When the trusty drag and click method doesn’t work, you can try to reset the settings. Don’t worry; I’m not about to ask you to perform a System Restore and try to remember the exact date that this phenomenon occurred. Nor will you get to do something as challenging as reloading your entire operating system.

This problem is not that complicated. Here’s what you do:

• Go to Start or just press Ctrl+Esc and it will pull up the start menu.
• Select settings, Taskbar, and then Start Menu.
• Make sure that you have the auto hide off and the taskbar is unlocked.
• Now if your taskbar is set to a zero height, you can resize it. Usually a small line will appear at the bottom of the screen for you to click and drag back to its normal size.
• After you fix it, don’t forget to right click and lock the taskbar back in place.

When the Taskbar is Still Acting Strange

Does your taskbar still not want to restore programs or when you try to fix the toolbar settings, everything is grayed out? This may just be faulty registry keys. The next thing you want to do is check for any malware on the computer.

After eliminating that, it may be time to run a registry cleaner. For the more adept computer user, you may decide to do it yourself.

Have you ever tried to speed up your computer by defragmenting disk, but only encountered a mass of problems? If so, you cannot miss this article, because you can find the methods to solve the problems in it.

First of all, you should know how to defragment disks in the Windows. You can click “Start” > “All Programs” > “Accessories” > “System Tools” to start the disk defragmenting program, in the dialog box, you can choose one or all the disks to defragment and then click “OK”. During defragmentation, you can click “View Report” to see the current defragmenting process. But, if you cannot find such disk defragmenting program in the accessories, it means that you do not install it before. So you can install it by clicking “Start” > “Control Panel” > “Add/Remove Programs” to accomplish that.

Though you can use this program, if you use it incorrectly, it is vulnerable of problems. So, here are some tips for you to defragment smoothly.

It is a must for you to close down all the applications when defragmenting and not to perform any read-write operation. If this Windows program finds any such operation, it may start again and again.

You should defragment disk at proper intervals. Normally, the frequently-used disk partition is supposed to be cleaned up once a week, like C disk. As for the special disk, you even have to do that once a day. In other word, you should defragment different disks based on different using situations.

Some Windows system can rearrange the program files in the disk so as to quicken the program startup. However, such function is really time-consuming and inefficient. If you want to defragment disk frequently, you can cancel such function by clicking “Settings” in the driver choose dialog box and crossing out the option of rearranging the program files to speed up the program startup.

Now that we have a mechanism in place to return to “normal” if we break something, we should make sure that the hard drive is in good shape.

Here is what we do.

Go to “Start -> My Computer”

Right click on Disk (C:)

Select “Properties”

Select the “Tools” tab

In the “Error-checking” box select the “Check Now” button

Check the “Automatically fix file system errors” box and the “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors” box

Click “Start”

You will get a message saying that the disk check can only be performed by restarting Windows and ask if you want to schedule the disk check for the next reboot. Choose “Yes” and restart your computer.

When your computer comes back after the check, if you have other hard drives or partitions, repeat the disk check on those as well. You will probably not get the warning message requiring a reboot for these disks or partitions, instead the check will just run.

If you have Internet access and your computer is still able to download files then you may want to get the free utility called HD Tune.

With HD Tune you can perform benchmark tests on your hard disk, examine any partitions there, check on the health of your disk as reported by the hard disk’s internal S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) software and perform an error scan on the drive. The HD Tune utility also displays the current temperature of the drive so that you can see if there may be any troubles coming up in the future.

If you do discover that there are problems then I am afraid it is possibly time to open up the wallet. If you do a search for “hard drive repair software” that should get you some good results.

If that method doesn’t fix it, then you have two options left, either send the drive out to a recovery company who may charge you hundreds of dollars and they will get what they can off the drive, or bin it and buy a new one.