National Clean Out Your Computer Day
Give your computer a breath of fresh air - it's like opening a window in a stuffy room, helping it run smoother.
Position maintenance tools, cleaning products, and PC upgrade services as essential companions to computer health on this annual reminder day.
- Before & After: Show dramatic dust removal from PC internals and performance gains
- DIY Tutorial Series: Step-by-step guides for safe computer cleaning with product recommendations
- Trade-Up Angle: Highlight how cleaning reveals aging hardware—perfect moment to pitch upgrades or new builds
- Maintenance Checklist: Free downloadable guide for annual PC health (with affiliate links to tools/products)
National Clean Out Your Computer Day was started in 2000 as an initiative of the Institute for Business Technology.
The event was started to act as a reminder for people all over the world to get the most out of their computers — and stay safe while using them.
Clean the Dust Out
What to do on this day is right there in the name– clean out your computer! When was the last time you cleaned out your fans and dusted off your motherboard? Have you looked at your graphics card to see if its cooling fan and fins are clean? For that matter, when did you last clean out you even opened the case? Make sure that your system is powered down and disconnected (don’t panic! You’ll survive the half-hour or so you have it down, I promise!) and then find a good online tutorial to show you the way to get it done safely. All that dust traps heat, and if you aren’t aware, computers really don’t function well under high stress and heat. Start by tearing down that case, opening it up, and clean out all of the dust and grime that’s inside. You may have more dust than you think in there, and it’s causing your system to slow down.
Clean From the Inside Out
Get the Hard Drive cleaned out next. Perform some recommended system maintenance checks and tidy up those old files, apps, documents and other items that are no longer necessary. A clogged up hard drive can be just as bad as a clogged up fan on your computer, though it won’t as often destroy your computer. Also, perform a cookie cleanup on your web browser to make it run more efficiently. Now you can enjoy another year of a smooth running computer, almost as fast as the day you bought them!