Gateway E-4400 System Manual

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Maintaining and managing your hard drive 616 Highlight all the files in the list except those with today’s date.7 Press DELETE .Deleting temporary Internet filesAs you visit Web sites, your browser stores temporary Internet files on yourhard drive in a memory cache and a disk cache. Files in the memory cache areremoved when you turn off your computer. Files are saved in the disk cacheuntil the space designated for the cache is full. See your browser’s Help filesfor instructions on emptying the disk cache.You can save space on the hard drive by decreasing the size of the Internetfile disk cache. See your browser’s Help files for instructions.Emptying the Recycle BinWhen you delete a file from your hard drive in Windows, it is not immediatelyremoved from the hard drive. Instead, the file is moved into the Recycle Bin.Because files are stored in the Recycle Bin and not deleted from the hard driveimmediately, you can retrieve a file that you accidentally delete from the harddrive.To delete all the files from the Recycle Bin, right-click the Recycle Bin iconon the desktop, then select Empty Recycle Bin.You can save space on the hard drive by decreasing the size of the Recycle Bin.To decrease the size of the Recycle Bin:1 Right-click the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop.2 Select Properties. The Recycle Bin Properties window opens.3 At the Global tab, select either Configure drives independently or Use onesetting for all drives.4 If you are configuring drives independently, click the tab for the driveyou want to configure.5 Move the slider to set the size of the Recycle Bin. 5% is a good initialsetting.6 Click OK.