Trial Software

PC’s are like refrigerators, from time to time we need to go through the old stuff that we most likely forgot about, has expired and is taking up valuable space and toss it. Though software won’t get old, start growing bacteria and stinking, it will hog disk space and start to bog down your PC’s performance.

Often I download trial software and realize it’s not exactly what I’m looking for or I use it a couple times then it expires and I pretty much forget about it. Just the other day I downloaded a few different programs that all did basically the same thing until I found the one that worked best for me. I actually downloaded about 4 or 5 screen capture programs until I found the one that I liked the best that allowed me to capture a scrolling document. Then I had to go through the process of removing the software that I didn’t end up using. What a pain! Going through the software removal process I found about 3 additional software trials that had expired from a while back which I removed too.

To maximize your PC’s disk space it’s always a good idea to be on top of the software that’s installed and remove the programs that you are not going to use anymore, including expired trials or software demos.