How to self-clean your PC with Belvedere

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Tutorials

Monday July 12, 2010

Your computer can wind up with a lot of files and you may find yourself routinely doing the same procedures to

keep your computer organized

. Fortunately there is a

free PC application

called

Belvedere

. Belvedere allows you to

create your own cleaning tasks

so that, for example, you don't have to keep manually moving files off the desktop to a separate folder.

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Show Notes

- You can download Belvedere here for free.

- When you open Belvedere, the first thing you do is select a folder that you want to make a rule for. We picked the downloads folder.

- Give your rules names that mean something to you.

- Determine if all criteria have to be met or just any.

- Now define what happens and to what.

- For example, we said that any ZIP file on the desktop should be moved to a folder called ZIPs.

- When you have your rule done, click Test to see what files it will impact.

- This is a great way to see if your rule does what you want it to before putting it into effect.

- Click on the Recycle Bin tab you and you can let Belvedere take control of your Recycle Bin.

- Be sure to save your preferences when you're done.

- Keep in mind that each rule can be enabled or disabled individually.

- That means that you can have some rules running all the time and others only when you need them.

- Belvedere was inspired by a similar application for the Mac called Hazel. If you're a Mac user, Hazel is a great program to use for these same features.

- Read more about Belvedere in this Lifehacker article.

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