Hi Denny, Thank you for these other computer maintenance tasks. I will make them a regular part of my monthly computer maintenance routine. Is cleaning out the temp files the same as deleting temporary Internet files? If it is not, how would I do that? Also I would like to know about cookies, what are they, should they be deleted, and if so how often should I delete them? I hope that I haven't asked too many questions here, but I would like to keep my computer running smoothly. Thanks again! Take care, Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: Denny Huff To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:59 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: Question about computer maintenance
Lisa, You can perform 3 of the tasks mentioned. 1. Check Disk Go to run and type in, chkdsk /f (drive letter): and press enter. Note the colon after the drive letter. Unlike running a check disk on your C drive, you won't need to reboot for this to perform. 2. Scan Disk Per form the scan disk just as you would on the C drive, but of course highlighting the drive you want to scan as opposed to the C drive. Then just follow the instructions as you would for the C drive. Again, you won't have to reboot for this to run. 3. Defrag Perform as you would for the C drive but again, highlight the drive you want to defrag. One more step that I didn't include in those instructions is cleaning up the temp files. This should be performed on the C drive. Close all applications with the exception of Jaws. Go to run and type in: %temp% and press enter. Note the percent sign before and after temp. Press enter. This will bring up a list of temp files that you can delete. Do a control A to select all. Now do a shift delete and say yes to, are you sure you want to delete these items? If it fails to delete some items, make sure all of your applications are closed and try again. When finished, do an alt f4 to close. Denny WEB TEXT READER Find news, sports, stock quotes, phone listings, encyclopedias, dictionaries, TV listings and more, fast and easily with Web Text Reader. For a 14 day free trial, go to: www.WebTextReader.Com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:17 PM To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Question about computer maintenance Hello everyone, This question is for Denny, or anyone else that can answer it for me. First off I just want to say thank you to Denny for posting the computer maintenance page on the jaws users web site! I had no problem following all of the directions, and I performed all of the maintenance on my computer. My question is, should I perform any of the maintenance tasks on my external harddrive? I thought that maybe I should follow the same directions for a defrag only on my external harddrive. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! I am running jaws 6, and I have windows XP home addition. Take care, Lisa ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.0.0/754 - Release Date: 4/9/2007 10:59 PM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ In order to contact the management team simply fill out the following form found at: http://www.jaws-users.com/contact.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jaws-users-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
