"National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day" is here, and here are some efficient ways you can use to speed up and organize your personal computers and laptops. According to the National Day Calendar's previous report, the special day encourages everyone to manage their virtual desktops.

Here are Effective Ways to Speed Up and Organize Your Computer on 'National Clean Your Virtual Desktop' Day
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It is scheduled for the third Monday of October every year. The special event focuses on the number of programs and files saved on your PC or laptop instead of those factors that could impact the speed and responsiveness of your gadget.

Engineering 360 explained that the cluttering on your computer happens gradually since it is a convenient place to store often-used programs and files, as well as those temporary files.

Organizing your PC

According to Office Depot's previous report, it is important to customize your desktop so that it won't get messed up. This technique is effective, especially for those creative people.

Here are Effective Ways to Speed Up and Organize Your Computer on 'National Clean Your Virtual Desktop' Day
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If you have a picture of your partner or anything you don't want to get obstructed, all you need to do is use that as your background. It'll help you avoid putting too many files on your main screen since you don't want random icons to hinder your beloved photo.

Another efficient way is to create a folder system that can be used in the future. This will help you to prevent your desktop from going back into a wall of icons.

Speeding up your computer

Organizing your computer properly is a different thing. Here are some great tips on how you can speed up the performance of your PC.

1) Always set reminders to speed up your computer on a regular schedule.

2) Use your desktop's cleaning wizard, which is available on certain Windows versions.

3) Remove the files and programs you don't longer need.

4) Name the remaining files or programs to know if you still need them in the future.

5) If you don't want to remove your files, you can move them to your hard drive.

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