Gateway LT10 Gateway Notebook User Guide - Windows XP - Page 64

Chapter 1: Maintaining Your computer www.gateway.com Deleting unnecessary files Help and Support For more information about keeping the hard drive space free of unnecessary files, click Start, then click Help and Support. Type the keyword disk cleanup in the Search box, then click the arrow. Delete unnecessary files, such as temporary Windows files, to free hard drive space. To use the Windows Disk Cleanup program: 1 Click Start, then click My Computer. The My Computer window opens. 2 Right-click the hard drive that you want to delete files from, for example Local Disk (C:), then click Properties. The Properties dialog box opens at the General tab. 3 Click Disk Cleanup. The Disk Cleanup dialog box opens. 4 Make sure that the check box beside each file type you want to delete is selected. For more information about file types you can delete, read the descriptions in the Disk Cleanup dialog box. 5 Click OK, then click Yes. Checking the hard drive for errors Help and Support For more information about checking the hard drive for errors, click Start, then click Help and Support. Type the keyword checking for disk errors in the Search box, then click the arrow. The Error-checking program examines the hard drive for physical flaws and file and folder problems. This program corrects file and folder problems and marks flawed areas on the hard drive so Windows does not use them. If you use your computer several hours every day, you probably want to run Error-checking once a week. If you use your computer less frequently, once a month may be adequate. Also use Error-checking if you encounter hard drive problems. 58