HP Presario 6000 Getting Started - Compaq Presario 6000 and 8000 Series Comput - Page 53

Cleaning Up the Hard Drive

Get HP Presario 6000 - Desktop PC PDF manuals and user guides View all HP Presario 6000 manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals

Page 53 highlights

Cleaning Up the Hard Drive As you use your computer and store files, the hard drive begins to fill up and get cluttered, which ultimately affects performance. To prevent this, you can delete files that you are not using. CAUTION: You should not delete any unfamiliar files. If in doubt, do not delete. To Clean Up the Hard Drive 1. Close all open programs. 2. Click the Start button from the Windows taskbar. 3. Click My Computer. 4. Right-click the hard disk drive you want to clean up. 5. Click Properties on the pop-up menu. Getting Started Maintaining the Computer 6. On the General tab, click Disk Cleanup. 7. Click the types of files you want to delete. 8. Click OK. 5-3

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130
  • 131
  • 132
  • 133
  • 134
  • 135
  • 136
  • 137
  • 138
  • 139
  • 140
  • 141
  • 142
Getting Started
5–3
Maintaining the Computer
Cleaning Up the Hard Drive
As you use your computer and store files, the
hard drive begins to fill up and get cluttered,
which ultimately affects performance. To prevent
this, you can delete files that you are not using.
To Clean Up the Hard Drive
1. Close all open programs.
2. Click the
Start
button from the Windows
taskbar.
3. Click
My Computer
.
4. Right-click the hard disk drive you want to
clean up.
5. Click
Properties
on the pop-up menu.
6. On the General tab, click
Disk
Cleanup
.
7. Click the types of files you want to delete.
8. Click
OK
.
CAUTION:
You should not delete any
unfamiliar files. If in doubt, do not delete.