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Chapter 6. Safety, Use, and Care Information

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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

®

will slow down and might

produce errors.

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.

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To free up disk space, uninstall unused application programs.

Note:

You might also want to look for application program duplication or
overlapping versions.

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Clean out your Inbox, Sent, and Trash folders from your e-mail client
program.

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At least once a week, make a point to back up your data. If critical data is
present, it is a good idea to perform a daily backup. Lenovo has many
backup options available for your computer. CD-RW drives and CD-
RW/DVD drives are available for most computers and are easily
installed.

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Use or schedule System Restore to take a system snapshot periodically.

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