Gateway 910 Series, System Manual

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Maintaining and managing your hard drive
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6
Click the
Backup Wizard
icon.
7
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the backup.
Deleting unneeded files
By deleting unneeded files from the hard drive, you free up space on the hard
drive and help improve hard-drive performance. The following sections give
you some simple ways to delete unneeded files.
Deleting Windows temporary files
During normal operation, Windows constantly creates new temporary (.tmp)
files. You can safely delete all but the most recent .tmp files.
To delete .tmp files:
1 Click
Start
, then select
Search
, then
for Files and Folders
.
2
In the
Search for files or folders named
text box, type *.tmp .
3 In the
Look in
drop down list, select your drive letter.
4 Click
Find Now
. The list of .tmp files appears sorted by date.
5 Highlight all the files in the list except those with the current date.
6 Press S
HIFT
+D
ELETE
. A dialog box opens asking if you want to delete the
files.
7 Click
Yes
. The files are deleted.
Deleting temporary Internet files
As you visit Web sites, your browser stores temporary Internet files on your
hard drive in a memory cache and a disk cache. Files in the memory cache are
removed when you turn off your server. Files in the disk cache are saved until
the space designated for the cache is full. See your browser’s Help files for
instructions on emptying the disk cache.
You can save space on the hard drive by decreasing the size of the Internet
file disk cache. See your browser’s Help files for instructions.