First a little inventory of what you have on your hard drive may be useful. Are there programs you just don't use? Do you have tons of pics, music, or old downloads just sitting there? A lot of people do. I usually recommend to my clients if it's stuff you want to keep (pics, music, downloads, movies, etc) move it off your computer's hard drive and on to an external storage device (flash drive, external hard drive, dvd, cd, or the cloud.) Not only is it taking up valuable space, but if your hard drive ever fails and the only copy you have of your favorite song, picture, movie, or document is on it, you may or may not be able to get it back. We will cover moving files off the hard drive in a future post. Let's get started with the uninstall!
To uninstall software (programs) left click on the Start Button. A box will open up like this:
Control Panel is on the right hand side. Click on it and a window will open up like this:
On the left side of this window is the word Programs. Under it is Uninstall a program. Click on it and another window will open that looks like this:
It may take a moment for the list to fill up with all your programs. When it does scroll down and find the one you want to uninstall. In our example we are uninstalling AVG PC Tuneup 2011. Click on the program you are uninstalling. You will see a box that looks like this:
Click on yes. A box will open up with a green status bar to show the progress of uninstalling. If the box only appears briefly, don't worry. The next screen you will see is this one:
Click Ok. You have successfully uninstalled a program. Continue as needed if you have several programs to uninstall.
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