All about your Computer Connection: Easy Steps to Having a Clean Computer Desktop

It seems that wherever you go online, when you want to download and save a file, they want you to save it to your desktop. The main reason they say this is so that you can easily find it. Over time this will become a big problem for you. Your computer has memory called RAM which is physically chips inside your computer. This type of memory is considered short term. You open an application and it goes into RAM. You close the application and it exits the RAM.

The problem you have is that the desktop takes up RAM. The more files on your desktop, the more RAM is taken up. This slows down the computer and sooner or later you will run out of resources and get error messages that say Virtual memory too low. Not that files on your desktop is the only reason for that error, but it contributes to it.

You have to think of the desktop as a temporary storage area. Once you download the file, install the program or read the file, then delete it off of your desktop. It is OK to have shortcuts on the desktop, but you want to keep it as clean as possible.

What do I do if I want to save the files on my desktop?
The best thing to do is to create a folder and put everything into that folder. Then, you put a shortcut to the folder on the desktop. Below are the steps to do this:

1. Double click on the My Computer icon. You may also click on the Start menu and double click on My Computer icon in the menu that opens.

2. Double click on the Drive C: icon and a list of folders and files will be displayed.

3. Click on the File menu, which is located at the top left of the screen, and select New menu option, then select Folder.

4. While the folder is highlighted type in Desktop Items and then click somewhere else on the screen. You now have a folder called Desktop Items.

5. The next step is to use your mouse and click on the Desktop Items folder icon with the right mouse button. Select the Send to menu option, then create desktop shortcut. There will be a folder icon now on your desktop called Desktop Items.

6. Now you can click and drag the files to the Desktop Items folder. Click on the icon with the right mouse button and drag the icon so that the folder Desktop Items is highlighted, release the mouse button and select the Move menu option. The file is now in the folder and not taking up RAM memory.

7. Do step 6 with all of the files that you downloaded or saved to your desktop.

8. To see the files in the Desktop Items folder double click on the folder.

9. The next time you save a file off of the Internet just save the file in the Desktop Items folder. You can also still save it to the desktop and drag the file into the Desktop Items folder.

I hope this article helped you in getting your desktop more organized. Saving memory space

is key to having a computer running more efficiently. Follow the steps above and organize your desktop now. The first time is always the hardest, but after that first time it does get easier.

Computer Tricks and Tweeks: Everything about Virus Handling

Guys, If you have viruses on your computer just tell me. I can take out any kind of viruses from your PC without the need to format your computer by the simple method of locating it and deleting it.

How to delete an "undeletable" File

Case 1:

Open a command prompt and leave it open and close all the other programs.

1. Open run and enter “taskmgr.exe”.

2. In the taskmgr.exe go to processes tab and end process “explorer.exe”. (Leave the task manager open.

3. Using the command prompt change the directory AVI (or other undeletable file) which is located in. type DEL where is the file you wish to delete.

4. Open Task manager click file - New Task and write “explorer.exe” and restart the GUI shell.

Case 2:

1. Save a blank notepad with the name of the undeletable file with the same extension of the undeletable file at the directory of the file.

2. This way is to replace the file and then delete it in the normal manner.

Case 3:

For these cases you may have certain problems in putting up the directory.

1. Start the command prompt and to move into the directory type: cd c:\***(The stars are for the folder).

2. If you still can’t access your folder than in that case instead of typing the full name put a ~ and then a 1 without spaces. For example type: cd c:\progra~1\kazaal~1.

3. Once you get up to the directory simply type “dir” in the command prompt and you will get the list of files in that directory.

4. Now type del . This will delete the file without any problem and if your filename has spaces in it then use the special character and the 1 formula to delete the file. Make sure you write the correct extension.

How to make a file invisible

An invisible file is a fun and useful tool for anyone. You can use it to hide important files that only you are permitted to see. You may also create one for the fun of it. Either way I know that it will benefit you in your life. The creating process is a fairly easy task, although some may find it hard to delete. I learned this task not too long ago, and I hope this will be helpful for you. I will teach you how to create an invisible file, how to delete this invisible file, and how to make it visible.

To Create an Invisible File

1.) Go on your main desktop screen, right click, scroll down to view, and select folder

2.) Once your folder appears right click again and scroll down to rename

3.) Hold down the buttons FN and ALT at the same time while typing mjom (not capitalized)(note some computers work with 0160, if so apply the same buttons, but instead of typing in mjom type 0160). It will look like you typed nothing than unselect the file. When you do this it should be blank, except for the folder showing.

4.) Than right click and scroll down to properties. Hit on the "Customize" tab.

5.) You than should choose "Change Icon"

6.) Than scroll through the Icons until you see a few blank patches in the icon selection.

7.) Than select one of those blank spots. Hit ok, than exit back to the properties menu.

8.) Hit apply, than exit.

9.) Your file should become invisible.

Congratulations! You've made an invisible file!

Deleting an Invisible File

You will notice you cannot delete this file while it’s invisible. This is where it can become tricky for some people.

1.) Pull up your start menu

2) Type in the search CMD. (command prompter)

3.) A small black screen should pop up. Next to where is shows words make a space than type cd desktop , than hit enter

4.) Than next to that type rename, than type "mjom" (when you type mjom hold down FN and ALT, but not when you type the parenthesis) it should look like this when you are done typing it " ", than make a space and type the new name you want it to be without parenthesis

5.) Hit enter. Than exit out of the command prompter screen (CMD). Look at your desktop screen and you should notice that the invisible now has a visible file name.

6.) Than you can delete the file.

Converting an Invisible file to Visible

1.) Repeat all the steps for deleting the invisible file except for step 6.

2.) Than after renaming the file in a visible form, just right click scroll down to properties

3.) Select the "customize" tab hit

4.) Hit “Change Icons” and pick any icon you like.

5.) Hit apply than exit to the properties menu, exit from that

6.) Look at your desktop and you should see an Icon and your new file name

Congratulations you’ve just learned how to create an invisible file, delete it, and convert it back to a visible file! I hope that this computer trick is helpful!