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Clearing the Junk Off Your Computer

If you’ve bought a new computer recently chances are it came with a lot of junk software. My recently purchased laptop came with trialware for AOL, Vonage, Rapsody, Microsoft Office, and Vongo and desktop icons for everything from Ebay to Yahoo!. PC manufacturers are paid to include such junkware, and retailers such as Best Buy actually profit by offering to remove it for a fee. You may find some of the trial applets useful, but if you choose to remove them all, you’ll see a substantial improvement in speed and performance.

The first step in removing the junk is to go to your control panel and remove as much as you can from there. If there still junk left, try one of the cleaning tools recommended by PC World. You won’t be sorry!

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