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these are the top five spring cleaning tech tips we're finally shaking off winter and heading into spring this is traditionally the time where people tidy things up so why stop at your house here's how to tidy up your tech life and number five clean up your hard drive it's amazing how quickly big drives can get filled up if you want to know where all your space went both Mac OS and Windows 10 have built-in tools to help on Mac OS click the Apple menu then about this Mac hit the storage tab then manage you will see a breakdown of what's on your Mac on Windows 10 head into settings then system and storage there you can turn on storage sense which will automatically delete unnecessary files and number 4 unsubscribe from those promotional emails that you don't want you can do it manually by searching your email for the word unsubscribe and then go through each piece of email or you could use a service like enroll me which will search through your emails and let you quickly get rid of those annoying promo emails unrolled out me can send you a digest version of the promo emails you want to keep so you just get one email instead of many number 3 check out which apps have access to your Google account the fastest way to get there is by going to my account Google comm on the left side click apps for the count access from there click manage apps on the right side here you'll see what apps can access your Google account and how much access they have you can do a quick search for full access to see what apps can do anything with your Google account get rid of whatever you're not using number to check your social permissions head on over to Facebook hit settings that hit apps here you can see all the different places you've logged in using Facebook you can disconnect your Facebook account from all those services you never use in my case my Facebook account was still linked to vine remember vine you can do the same thing with Twitter by going into settings and clicking apps you can revoke access to all kinds of things like AOL lifestream or Windows Phone the number one spring-cleaning tech tip is it's time to delete some apps from your phone if you're running iOS 11 head to settings then general then storage you'll have the option to offload unused apps below that you'll see which apps are using up the most space and when you last used the app on a Samsung phone head to Settings device maintenance then tap storage you'll see where your space went tapping apps will bring you a list of apps that appears to be sorted by how often you use the app rarely used apps are at the top for those of you who are hesitant to delete any of your apps because you never know when you'll need them again here's a bonus tip take those questionable apps and put them in a folder marked delete in a month set a calendar reminder to tell you to check the folder in one month if you haven't used it by then maybe it's time to delete that out oh and one more thing before we go you probably also want to clean off your phone because it probably goes with you everywhere and I mean everywhere what other spring-cleaning tech tip do you guys have let me know I my as a colonel see you online