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Maintaining and managing your hard drive 77

Deleting Windows temporary files

During normal operation, Windows constantly creates new temporary (.tmp)

files. You can safely delete all but the most recent .tmp files.

To delete .tmp files:

1 Open Windows Explorer, then select Tools, Find, then Files and Folders.

2 In the Named text box, type *.tmp.

3 In the Look in drop down list, select your drive letter.

4 Click Find Now. The list of .tmp files appears.

5 Click Modified above the list. To see the Modified button, you may need

to maximize the Find window. The list is sorted by date.

6 Highlight all the files in the list except those with the current date.

7 Press SHIFT + DELETE. A dialog box opens asking if you want to delete the

files.

8 Click Yes. The files are deleted.

Deleting temporary Internet files

As you visit Web sites, your browser stores temporary Internet files on your

hard drive in a memory cache and a disk cache. Files in the memory cache are

removed when you turn off your computer. Files are saved in the disk cache

until the space designated for the cache is full. See your browser’s Help files

for instructions on emptying the disk cache.

You can save space on the hard drive by decreasing the size of the Internet

file disk cache. See your browser’s Help files for instructions.

Emptying the Recycle Bin

When you delete a file from your hard drive in Windows NT, it is not

immediately removed 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 drive immediately, you can retrieve a file that you accidentally delete

from the hard drive.

To delete all the files from the Recycle Bin, right-click the

Recycle Bin icon

on the desktop, then click

Empty Recycle Bin.

You can save space on the hard drive by decreasing the size of the Recycle Bin.

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