Moving the “My Documents” folder in Windows

You might be asking “why would I want to do this?”  Well for one it’ll save space on your hard drive that it’s originally located on and second in case your Windows partition ever becomes corrupted you won’t have to worry about losing all of you personal documents.  To do this follow these steps:

1. Right click My Documents and click Properties.

2. Click the Move button under the Target tab.  This will bring up a second dialog box like the one below:

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3. From that second dialog box you need select where you want the folder moved to.  Select your choice and click OK.

4. Click apply in the My Documents Properties dialog box.

Wait for your files to transfer to your new destination and your finished.  Pretty simple huh? 😉

Cleaning up a Ubuntu GNU/Linux system

If you want to clean your ubuntu machine you need to follow these simple steps to remove all unnecessary junk files.

Remove Residual Config packages

In Synaptic Package Manger, there is a built-in feature that gets rid of old Residual Config packages. Residual Config packages are usually dependency packages that are left behind after you uninstall a package from your machine. To use this feature, go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager. On the bottom left hand corner of the window,