Spring cleaning for your computer! Just think about it – Can’t rememeber the last time you cleaned your PC? Deleted old files from your pc? If you can’t when, then maybe it’s time to clean!
No worries, a lot of people don’t have the time set aside to clean their computer, but they do find that time when their system slows down. Regularly cleaning your PC and it’s parts, especially since most are in a restaurant environment, can keep your system running smoothly and help protect you from unwanted problems. This can also get your restaurant Point of Sale system up and running perfectly as expected.
Follow this few simple tips for your spring cleaning:
1. Start with your mouse. No one ever suspects the little guy, but your mouse could hold all sorts of harmful bacteria that may cause illness. Use a small amount of cleaning solution on a lint free cloth to clean the mouse every now and then. If other people, using your PC, are getting sick because of it, then you need to clean your PC more often.
2. Next is your keyboard. Keyboards collect a lot of tiny dirt from you – little crumbs of food, dust from papers or folders scattered across the desk, and most of the times even from your unwashed hands on the keyboard. Cleaning the keyboard is not hard as it seems, first shut down your computer, remove the plugs and take your keyboard to a trash can. Turn it upside down, to prevent it from falling to the ground, and lightly shake it or use compressed air to remove any dirt under the keys.
After getting rid of the debris from around the keys, use cotton {swabs|buds} with a little cleaning solution like isopropyl alcohol to clean in between the keys. Next use a lint free cloth with a little bit of cleaning solution to wipe the tops of all the keys. Finish up by wiping the entire keyboard with a dry cloth.
3. Cleaning your computer. The actual computer component that your monitor, keyboard and mouse plug in to , also called the CPU. These units can astonishingly collect vast amount of dirt, especially if they are placed on the floor. Have you baffled after seeing what’s under your PC tower? If so, it’s definitely time for a cleaning.
Again, with the same cloth and cleaning solution you used for your mouse and keyboard, wipe down the outside vents and around the connections. You have to make sure you get as much dust as you can out of the vents. your PC is going to overheat.}
4. Dump the trash. How long has it been since you visited the recycle bin and emptied its content? The recycle bin is where all deleted files are dumped before they are permanently removed from your PCs hard drive. To empty the recycle bin is easy, all you need to do is right click on the “trashcan” icon, choose “yes” and it will permanently remove all files giving more free space for your hard drive.
5. Clear the cache. Another disk space hog can be temporary internet files that have never been deleted for ages! To simply delete temporary internet files within Microsoft Internet Explorer, open your browser, click on Tools -> Internet Options. At the Browsing History section, there’s a button labeled “Delete”. Click Delete and you will have a number of choices – Temporary Inter Files, Cookies, History, Form data and Passwords.
Down here is a brief description each choices under the Browsing History section:
Temporary Internet Files – Deleting this will remove all copies of the websites/webpages you’ve visited, images and media that are saved on your computer for {faster|quick} viewing.
Cookies – Deleting the cookies will remove the files stored on your PC by websites to save preferences such as login information.
History – Deleting the history will delete the list of websites you have visited.
Form Data – This will delete any saved information that you have typed into forms.
Password – This will delete any passwords that are automatically filled in when you log on to a website you’ve previously visited.
There is also a Delete All button that will clear all of the above.
your PC regularly, especially if it is placed in an environment, like the restaurant kitchen, where dirts and spills are common.}
The author of this article is the Vice President of Customer Relations at POS-For-Restaurants. With over 20 years of restaurant POS solutions experience, POS-For-Restaurants helps you use your technology to be more efficient, more productive and more profitable.
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