Computer Clutter Stats
Computer Clutter Stats
Here are some fun clutter stats from iolo.com
- The average American adult has 1,800 digital files, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, making searching them quite a task.
- Executives waste six weeks each year looking for lost items and information. This according to a study published in the Wall Street Journal, surely adds up to huge corporate operating losses.
- Americans waste nine million hours per day searching for misplaced items. On average, people spend a year of their lives looking for lost items, according to the National Association of Professional Organizers. In short, imagine the things you could do if cleaning up your computer saved some of those hours!
- In 2007 alone more than 40 million computers were dumped, up from 20 million in 1998. On average, each computer lasted only 30 months, that short life span often attributed to the need for a larger hard drive. Save yourself the money and the environment the damage by freeing up space on your old hard drive.
- One of the most often-cited PC frustrations is a computer that runs slow – So consider speeding up your machine by cleaning it out.
We will continue on Monday with some great tips for cleaning out your computer. Join us.
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
We have found a solution. We are using Organyze 2.1. It helps you get more from your computer by helping you manage your files, folders and emails more efficiently. Now finding files is very easy – it doesn’t matter where the files are saved; Organyze finds them in an instant. This is much, much faster than doing a keyword search or manually hunting through folders and sub-folders for files you need.
By retrieving files through labels, Organyze helps find important files or emails one may have forgotten about. check this site: http://www.organyze.com