Toshiba U205-S5002 - Satellite - Core Duo 1.66 GHz User Manual page 216

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If Something Goes Wrong
Develop good computing habits
3 A Windows Explorer window will open for the blank
CD. This window will be referred to as "the CD
window."
4 Open a second Windows Explorer window by clicking
Start, then My Computer.
5 In this second window, browse to the files you wish to
back up. Click the down-pointing arrow at the upper right
of the window (to the left of the Go button) to see a list of
locations that includes My Documents—a likely
location of your data.
6 Drag and drop folders or individual files from this
window into the CD window. If the files do not
immediately appear in the CD window, press F5 (or click
View, Refresh) to prompt Windows to display them.
NOTE
7 When you have finished copying files to the CD window,
click File, Write these files to CD.
Documents and other data files that you create as you work are
typically stored in the My Documents folder. You may also
wish to back up other important data files stored elsewhere on
your hard disk drive, for example:
❖
E-mail files and settings—for Outlook, Outlook Express,
or other e-mail apps. Visit the vendors' Web sites
(www.microsoft.com, for example) for detailed
instructions.
❖
Newsgroup files and settings—for Outlook Express, or
other newsgroup readers. Visit the vendors' Web sites for
detailed instructions.
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Other data files. If you do not find an application's data
files in any of the folders within the My Documents folder,
check the application's options or preferences settings to
discover the locations of the files.