Lenovo Y550 manual „ General tips for maintenance, Safety, Use, and Care Information

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Chapter 6. Safety, Use, and Care Information

„General tips for maintenance

1Check 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.

2Empty your recycle bin on a regular basis.

3Use Diskeeper Lite or the Microsoft Disk Defragmenter on your hard disk drive on a regular basis to improve data seek and read time.

ƒTo free up disk space, uninstall unused application programs.

￿Note:

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

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

ƒAt 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.

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

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