Expert Help Needed - How to keep my laptop files tidy!

[ColeUK]

I have recently purchased my first laptop, The Sony FE31H

I read that its good to use the C Drive to save program files and use the D Drive to save general files i have on my laptop.? What do you think/suggest?

I am a bit of a perfectionist at heart and fussy, and as this is a new laptop i would like to be as tidy and organised from the beginning to save me from being annoyed later on.

How can i keep my drives as clean as possible when it comes to saving files/programs onto the hardrive.

For Example:

- Installing new Programs/Applications/Games to the hardrive.
- Downloading updates for various programs when needed.
- Saving my own files like Music, Photos and Documents.

What i want to achieve is the most tidy, easy to navigate hardrives possible? And includes how the file names are presented to me.

On the other hand i want to make it straight forward to remove anything when needed and be reassured that they are removed completely and not leaving bits of files dotted all over the place on the hardrive which are not used and are not needed any longer!

Your suggestions and advice would be much appreciated!

P.S I am going to start the ball rolling by uninstalling Norton! using the advice from another thread.

Cole

[jumpsuit]

Hi Cole and welcome to CV

I think you've got it pretty much sorted for how to keep program files etc seperate from your photos, music etc.

In terms of clean up progs, Tune Up Utilities works well as does Registry mechanic, but make sure they create a restore point before they clean, just in case.

[ColeUK]

Thanks i just used it after deleting Norton etc...and chanced it without the restore point! How does restore point work?

[jumpsuit]

I think you can set an option in regestry mechanic - not 100% sure about tune-op to create a restore point should cleaning upset other applications.

Sometimes when cleaning, a program may label certain files as not necessary but they can be linked to, and needed by other applications.

should you clean and find something not working as it shoukd then you can go back to the restore point and undo your cleaning.

Windows (stop me if you know this :smileyhappy:) has its own restore points which you can also create by going to Start - Help & Support - pick a task - undo changes with system restore. Here you can create your own restore points too.