Other Ways to Use Your PC When Your Internet Dies

Let’s take a look at some ways you might be productive and entertained without the Internet.

Go through and uninstall programs you no longer use or need.

Hopefully it is already installed on your hard drive or thumb drive.

Before doing the disk cleanup, save any work you have open and close out of all programs.

Then hit Ctrl+A to select all of the files then hit Delete.

This will clear out the Temp folder, which Disk Cleanup often misses.

After that empty the Recycle Bin and run Disk Cleanup.

If you decide to clean up the Registry, scan for issues, then click Fix Selected Issues.

In Windows 7 jot down disk defrag into the Search box in the Start Menu and hit Enter.

Here is an example of setting up a schedule for for the Disk Defragmenter.

For more on using Disk Defrag check our article onhow to configure disk defragmenter in Vista or Windows 7.

Get some Canned Air, and clean out all the dust bunnies in the machine.

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Another thing you might want to do is clean your keyboard and mouse.

Here are a few suggestions on ways to still be productive with no Internet.

Provided you have local copies of Office Documents, you might certainly still work on them.

Maybe you have a PowerPoint, Word Document, or Excel Spreadsheet to work on or review.

tune up your To Do List…a nice free app for this that we’vepreviously covered is Doomi.

It’s light on system resources and is easy to work with from your desktop.

Go through and delete unneeded messages, clean out your Deleted Items, and run Auto Archive.

This will help you to get better organized when you connection comes back.

you could take this time to organize your local photo collection with tools like Picassa orWindows Live Photo Gallery.

Use this as an opportunity to get caught up on them.

Go through and have fun with the story line of single player mode.

Or go back and relive the enjoyment you experienced with older games.

Take the time toorganize your music collection in WMPor whatever your favorite desktop music player is.

If you do, double-check to follow ourguide on staying safe while on a Public Wi-Fi web connection.

There’s actually a real world out there to be explored.

you could use Internet downtime to use your geek skills to get out and meet new people.

Or use it as an opportunity to get outside and meet people.

What about you guys?

What things do you do with your PC when your Internet connection is down?

Leave us a comment and let us know!