The First Steps to Virus/Spyware/Adware Removal
Step 1: Delete Temporary Files
There are a number of files/folders/programs that you can make use of once and never need again in the future. They tend to accumulate on your system and consume much space on your drive, resulting to slow processing of tasks. To enhance your computer’s performance while doing a scanning process, I would strongly suggest you to sort and delete them. This will result to a faster and more effective virus scanning process.
Your computer can get infected simply by accessing a website. And information about visited websites is stored in your Temporary Internet Files folder to facilitate an upcoming access to these websites. However, these files can be infected and also tend to take a lot of space in the long run. Deleting these files would allow you to remove corrupted files from your system while allowing your computer to perform faster.
How to delete Temporary Files?
Click on your Start Button and select the “Accessories” option
Choose “System Tools” and from the list, choose “Disk Clean up”
Let the application run for a while
When the scanning process is over, always click on “View Files” to check whether these files found can be removed from your system
You can also check more options in the “Files to delete” list. Temporary Internet Files, Downloaded Program Files, Offline WebPages as well as the Recycle Bin can be checked.
Confirm the changes when prompted and click “OK”
How to delete Temporary Internet Files?
Click on your Start Button and open Control Panel
Select Internet Options
From the General task, under Temporary Internet Files, choose “Delete Cookies” and “Delete Files”.
Confirm the changes and click “Apply”.
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