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Deleting files you no longer need

Deleting files you no longer need

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Deleting files you no longer need

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- [Instructor] If you've had your computer for more than five years, it's old. I don't need to tell you that. You know, by monitoring its performance, one of the big laggards is mass storage. To add some pep to the system, consider managing your data files, those you create, store and download on your computer. You could do two things to manage these older files. Remove those you no longer need and archive those you rarely need. In this movie I cover removing older files and those you no longer need. Start in your user account or profile folder, what I call the home folder. Open a File Explorer window press the Windows E keyboard shortcut and choose your account name from the address bar. My account is Dan Gookin on this computer. Here is where you store your stuff. Files you create, files downloaded from the internet or saved as email attachments. It's all here somewhere. Click the search bar, type size, colon…

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