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Maintain and manage your hard drive          

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.

When you delete a file from your hard drive in Windows, 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 

 icon 

on the desktop, then click 

.

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

Right-click the 

 then select 

.

At the Global tab, select either 

 or 

If you are configuring drives independently, click the tab for the drive 
you want to configure.

Move the slider to set the size of the Recycle Bin. A good initial setting 
is 5%.

Click 

.

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