Thursday, April 11, 2019

Spring Cleaning Time


With spring upon us, it's a good idea to do some spring cleaning and spruce up your computer.  Here are some helpful tips:

Clear Cache:
Browsers are constantly downloading content onto your computer.  They do a pretty good job at managing this content but need a little help now and again to keep things running well. Here is a blog post about clearing your browser cache:


Clean out Download Folder:
One folder on your computer that tends to accumulate a lot of junk is the download folder.  This is the default location for your computer to save downloaded things from the internet. From your desktop, click “Go” from the top menu bar and select download.  I would recommend moving anything you would like to keep to the documents folder and move the rest to the trash. Don’t forget to empty your trash when you are done.

Restart More:
When was the last time you restarted your computer?  If you can’t answer that question, you definitely don’t restart enough.  A good rule of thumb is to at least shut your computer down once a week. When you leave school on Friday, shut your computer and don’t turn it back on until you need it again.  You need a break over the weekend and so does your computer.

One of the biggest reasons we hear from users for not restarting is they don’t want to lose their chrome tabs.  There is way to work around this. Go to three dots in the upper right hand corner of chrome and select settings.  From there, scroll down to “On startup” and change the setting to “Continue where you left off.”  When you quit chrome now, it will reopen all your tabs the next time you open it.


Change your Google password:
It’s always a good idea to change your password if you have not done it in a while.  Check out this blog post:


What updates to run?
ITD is still not ready for the Mojave update.  When we are ready, we will send out instructions.  Until then, here is what we recommend updating: