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Chapter 6. Safety, Use, and Care Information
General Tips for Maintenance
1
Check the capacity of your hard disk drive from time to time. If the
hard disk drive gets too full, Windows
produce errors.
Note:
You can check the capacity of each hard disk drive as follows.
1. Click Start and select Computer from the start menu.
2. Right-click the hard-disk you want to check.
3. Select Properties from the pull down menu.
4. Check the capacity of the hard disk drive.
5. Click the OK button to close the properties window.
2
Empty your recycle bin on a regular basis.
3
Use Diskeeper Lite or the Microsoft Disk Defragmenter on your hard
disk drive on a regular basis to improve data seek and read time. To
start the Disk Defragmenter, click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
-> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter.
To free up disk space, uninstall unused application programs.
Note:
You might also want to look for application program duplication or
overlapping versions.
Clean out your Inbox, Sent, and Trash folders from your e-mail client
program.
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