Apple 5300CD Protecting the information on a disk, Hiding and showing windows on the desktop

Hiding and showing windows on the desktop

You can hide all windows except those of the active program by choosing

Hide Others from the Application menu.

The other programs remain open even though their windows are hidden.

When you switch to another program, its windows become visible again.

If you want to see all the open windows, choose Show All from the

Application menu.

Protecting the information on a disk

When you have a valuable document like a birth certificate, you probably make an extra copy of it for safekeeping. Similarly, you should make a copy of the documents you create on your computer. The extra copy is called a backup, and the process of making the copy is called backing up.

Once you have a backup, you’re protected from accidentally losing the information on your hard disk. In the unlikely event that something happens to your hard disk, you can easily get the information back.

Your computer’s hard disk comes with a lot of valuable information already stored on it, including system software and some application programs. The Macintosh Performa CD contains a backup copy of all the system software and application programs that came with your computer. See the Macintosh Performa CD booklet for instructions on using the CD to reinstall software.

Making backup copies of your documents

mYou should regularly make copies of the documents you create.

mYou can back up files stored on your hard disk by copying them to floppy disks.

mYou can back up an entire floppy disk by copying it to another floppy disk of the same capacity or larger, or by copying it to a hard disk.

mYou can use a commercial backup program to copy new and changed files from a hard disk to another hard disk, to a tape drive, or to a series of floppy disks.

mIf your computer is on a network, you may be able to back up files by copying them to a shared disk on the network.

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