You must do this dragging (in either direction) from within Windows Explorer. Moving or copying a font to or from C:WindowsFonts folder via DOS commands or some other utility won't properly install or uninstall it. Some fonts should stay put, such as Windows system fonts, which have extension .fon instead of .ttf. The icon for a system font has a red 'A' rather than a gray-blue 'TT'. System fonts are usually hidden files, but they're visible in Fonts folder in Explorer. They disappear when you move them elsewhere, though. Some applications require specific fonts, such as Arial, Verdana or Times New Roman, so you'd better keep them around.

Any other ones you don't use can be moved to another folder.

More info on this can be found at:- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;234749

************************************** Step Six: Optimise your system ************************************** A few basic pointers for optimising your system.

(1) From desktop right click on "my computer" icon and select properties. Select "file system" and under hard disc tab, where it says "for typical role of this computer" select "network server" in drop down menu as this speeds up transfers.

(2) Under floppy disc make sure little box is not ticked as this increases boot up time slightly.

(3) On Internet Explorer while surfing net, images are stored on hard drive in a section called cache. This is useful if you are using a slow dial-up connection as it means most used images don't have to be continually downloaded so surfing speeds are increased.

If cache size is too great then Explorer has to check through all images before it downloads them and this can slow up browsing. The optimum size is a bit, hit or miss, but with ADSL or cable cache can be set much smaller as images download quickly. Also when cache is too large files get fragmented (this is covered later) and hard disk thrashes around trying to piece it all together thus slowing everything down.

It's a matter of trial and error but I wouldn't recommend much more than 50MB for a slow connection and about 10MB for ADSL or Cable.

Adjustment is made by clicking on Internet explorer "tools" and "internet options" then under "temporary internet files" settings button and use slider to adjust amount.

(4) A program I find very useful for optimising various parts of your computer is one called "Speed up my PC" With this you can set it automatically to take care of memory usage and can prevent system crashes at awkward times. It's not free this on but it might be worth taking a look at it. You can read more on it here:- http://www.pcsandthings.com/speed_up_my_pc.htm

*********************************************************** Step Seven: defragment your hard drive regularly ***********************************************************

De-what, my hard drive? I might hear you say. Sounds a bit severe but it's something that should be done fairly regularly.

Your computer works efficiently when data it takes from hard drive to process in memory is all in one place and doesn't take very long to fetch.

After using your computer for a while, related files get broken up into fragments and are scattered all over disc. This happens in normal use and it can significantly increase time it takes to collect it all up.

A bit like you going to another room to fetch your files from a filing cabinet and if they were all together it would be easy to collect them. If on other hand they were in different cabinets all dotted around room then you get idea.

The thing to do is run defragmenter that comes with Windows. Double click "My Computer" and then Right Click icon for drive C: and then click properties. Select defragment and follow instructions.

This process can take a long time on a large hard drive with badly fragmented files, so it may be advisable to set this running at a quiet time computer wise or even overnight.

There is a another program I highly recommend for defragmenting which is called Diskeeper Lite and is much better than built-in version that Windows has. It is available as a free download plus some more articles on fragmentation from http://www.executive.com/downloads/menu.asp

Defragmenting is best done last after other steps above as removing files and clutter will leave gaps that can then be put back together for normal use.

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Carrying out above actions will help keep your PC running faster and more stable and hopefully crashing less causing you less stress and frustration from lost work.

So get started now and clean up your PC and make it a habit to do it regularly and keep your system running at peak performance.

And don't forget one of most cost effective upgrades you can do to your PC at moment is to add some more Memory (RAM).

Check our website for "Memory specials" at:- http://www.pcsandthings.com/

or

Buy direct from manufacturer at:- http://www.pcsandthings.com/crucial.htm

They have a system selector that can help you choose correct RAM for your PC.

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