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Got a new PC coming? Here are 5 helpful ways to prepare for it

If you’ve just bought a new laptop or desktop PC for yourself, chances are good that you purchased it online. That gives you downtime before it arrives, which you can use to chip away at some necessary preparatory work before using your new PC.

Sure, you can wait until your new computer arrives to do these steps. But doing some of the work now makes getting to the fun part—enjoying your shiny new PC—much faster. It’s also less of a slog. When you go to a store and bring home a new laptop, you’ll usually end up undertaking all this work in a single, hours-long go.

Of course, you don’t have to do everything on this list. But if it’s

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