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NOTE If you manage a system with a solid-state drive, you don’t have to

defrag your drive. In fact, you should never defrag an SSD, because it can

shorten its lifetime. Windows will not defragment SSDs automatically.

Disk Cleanup

Did you know that the average hard drive is full of trash? Not the junk you

intentionally put in your hard drive such as the 23,000 e-mail messages that

you refuse to delete from your e-mail program. This kind of trash is all the

files that you never see that Windows keeps for you. Here are a few

examples:

• Files in the Recycle Bin When you delete a file, it isn’t really

deleted. It’s placed in the Recycle Bin in case you decide you need the

file later. I just checked my Recycle Bin and found around 3 GB worth

of files (see Figure 9-57). That’s a lot of trash!

• Temporary Internet files When you go to a Web site, Windows

keeps copies of the graphics and other items so the page will load more

quickly the next time you access it. (Modern browsers handle this

automatically.)

• Downloaded program files Your system always keeps a copy of any

applets it downloads. You can see these in the Internet Options applet

by clicking the Settings button under the Browsing history label. Click

the View objects button on the Temporary Internet Files and History

Settings dialog box. You’ll generally find only a few tiny files here.

• Temporary files Many applications create temporary files that are

supposed to be deleted when the application is closed. For one reason

or another, these temporary files sometimes aren’t deleted. The

location of these files varies with the version of Windows, but they

always reside in a folder called “Temp.”

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