C Cleaning Time

When your C drive gets completely full, a lot of things don't happen. Automatic updates don't download, automated defrags don't happen. Sluggishness occurs. It can prevent you from opening ANY file or it can crash your hard drive completely.

Checking your C drive status is easy. Double click on Computer or My Computer to open it. Then, right click on Properties. Blue is used space and purple is free space. Never go beyond 75% blue. 

To fix it:

• Download and run CCleaner from piriform.com. Run this weekly or more often if you do a lot of recreational browsing. You would be surprised how much trash this program finds.
• Old files can fill up a C drive quickly. If they are not used regularly, burn them onto a CD or copy them to a flash drive.  You can make a secondary backup to a cloud-based storage, but I wouldn't recommend relying 100% on a cloud solution.