Down & Dirty Cleanup
How many programs have you installed, updated, uninstalled, and reinstalled in the last year? Does your computer run smoothly, or does it occasionally crash or freeze for unknown reasons?
Sure, you might well be able to say that your computer runs fine, thank you very much, and you haven't done any software or hardware maintenance in years. Which is all well and good, but if you carry that philosophy over into the world of auto maintenance, you'd be like the guy who never sees the need to change his oil or check his hoses--until, of course, the dashboard lights up in the middle of some Kansas cornfield and you slowly roll to a stop alongside an unknown highway.
In this short article, we'll come up with a list of maintenance tips you should be following on your Windows editing computer, in order to keep things running smoothly so your system won't fail on you when you're rendering effects or cutting together long sequences of foota…
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