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Chromebooks are incredible computing
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devices for many reasons they boot up in
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seconds you don't have to spend all day
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doing updates and they're just simple to
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use they truly take advantage of cloud
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computing and that's why they're so fast
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but if you're not careful your
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Chromebook might start to feel a little
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bit bogged down occasionally so I want
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to go through five quick tips to
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optimize your Chromebook and keep it
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running smooth but before we get into
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get into those tips a lot of these have
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been covered in our Chromebook tip
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Tuesday segment that we do here on
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YouTube so if you aren't familiar with
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those we'll make sure to link all those
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videos down in the description okay so
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our first tip is to clean up your
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extensions extensions are essentially
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little pieces of software that can run
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in the Chrome browser to help you be
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more productive a couple that I use
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daily are grammarly bitly and pocket and
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these are great pieces of little
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software but if you're not careful some
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of them might become outdated and when
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they aren't being supported anymore they
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might start to cause issues from slow
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load speeds to maybe even screen
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glitches or all kinds of issues you can
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view all of the extensions that you have
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installed by going into your settings
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and then clicking on extensions over on
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the left side and this will show you all
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of the extensions that you have
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installed in your Chrome browser so
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first of all you need to remove any of
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the extensions that you aren't using and
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then if you're still having issues go
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through and turn on and off each of the
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extensions to figure out which one might
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be the culprit of your issues the next
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step is to clean up your hard drive
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Chromebooks are designed to run in the
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clouds so the hard drives that are on
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most Chromebooks aren't as large as some
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that you might have on a Windows device
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or a Mac and that's because most of your
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files are up in Google Drive or they
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should be so you really should be taking
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we'll drive so anytime you're importing
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files or importing photos or something
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make sure to add those into the Google
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Drive and don't let them set in your
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downloads folder or on your device
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utilizing Google Drive and moving all of
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those files into the cloud we'll make
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sure that the limited hard drive space
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that you do have isn't clogged up and
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will keep your Chromebook running fast
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okay so our next tip is to set up your
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downloads folder to automatically upload
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to Google Drive so this is a tip that
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we've covered in our chrome book tip
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Tuesday segment and it's one that not a
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lot of people are aware of but by doing
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so essentially anything that you
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download is going to be automatically
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uploaded to Google Drive and it's not
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going to take up any space on your
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and then also if you're logging in to
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another device or you need to power wash
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your device you don't have to worry
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about any of those files that might be
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stuck in your downloads they're going to
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be automatically uploaded to Google
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Drive this is one of those really useful
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hacks that only takes a couple seconds
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to set up and we recommend that everyone
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does this the first thing you'll need to
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do is actually go into Google Drive and
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create a folder called downloads and
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then you'll go into your settings and
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set that folder as your downloads folder
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for Chrome OS and then you're ready to
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go anytime that you download something
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it's going to be automatically uploaded
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to that folder and not having those
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local files sitting on your device is
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gonna keep your Chromebook running
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smooth the next step is to review and
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uninstall any apps that you aren't using
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if you're like me especially on my phone
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I will sometimes install an app for this
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or that and I will forget about it and
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never go and uninstall it and that's not
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a huge deal on Chrome OS because those
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apps actually aren't taking up any of
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your local resources when they're not
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running but they are still on your
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device so going through there and
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cleaning up those apps and uninstalling
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any of them that you're not using is
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gonna help to optimize your Chromebook
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and make it run faster in the new app
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manager makes this super easy you can go
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into the app manager and see all of
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those apps that you have installed on
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and easily uninstall them if you need to
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in the new app manager is really easy to
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get to you just go into your settings
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and then click on apps over there on the
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Left menu and then you can go through
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and click on each app individually and
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uninstall it if you need to in the last
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powerwash your Chromebook if all else
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fails if you're having issues with your
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Chromebook and it's running slow just go
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through a power wash and it's going to
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reset that device back to its factory
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settings and this can be done in your
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settings menu or it can be done from the
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lock screen and we have a Chromebook tip
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Tuesday on that process this is
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something that we do around the office a
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lot as we're testing different devices
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or sharing them around we will just
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power wash them and reset them back to
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factory settings and then hand them up
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to the next person who can login and set
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up that device and if you've made sure
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to set up all of your files in Google
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Drive and set up your downloads folder
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to upload to Google Drive you can
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basically just do a power wash and not
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have to worry about losing any of your
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local files and so if you're having
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issues or if maybe you just want to get
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a fresh install of Chrome OS just go in
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there and do a power wash and it should
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make your Chromebook feel basically
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brand new fresh out of the box so that's
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it there's five quick tips to help you
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optimize your Chromebook I know that
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Chromebooks don't need a whole lot of
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optimizing because they run in the cloud
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and they're already really fast but I
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hope that these five tips can help you
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if you're maybe having issues or if you
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just want to speed up your Chromebook
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but that's it for this one guys hope you
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