Cleaning the inside of your computer means making sure your files are in an appropriate place and organized correctly. To do that you must find your files, create folders for them, and save those folders in an easily accessible location.

Find files:

• Locate all saved documents, pictures, graphics, and so on.
• Click and drag the files to My Documents or Documents.
• Search your Desktop and Program Files for any hidden files. Sometimes documents are inadvertently saved there. To find files that might be hiding elsewhere:
  
  
  • go to Start>Search (or Find), and type:
  • *.doc (to find any Word documents)
  • *.xls (to find any Excel documents)
  • *.ppt (to find any PowerPoint files)
  • *.jpg or *.gif (to find any photographs you've saved)
  • If you use programs besides those listed above, look at the name of a file created with that program to find the extension -- the letters after the "." Type *. and those letters to find other documents created with that program.

Create folders:
The more you organize files into folders, the easier it is to find and back up files.

To create a desktop folder:

• Right-click on any area in My Documents or Desktop.
• Left-click New.
• Left-click Folder.
• Name the folder: Type a name and hit ENTER when the words New Folder appear beneath the folder icon.

• Right-click the folder.
• Left-click Rename.
• Type the name and hit ENTER.

• If the file and folder are both on the Desktop, click the file, hold down the mouse button, and drag the file into the folder.
• If the file is in My Documents and the folder is on the desktop, double-click My Documents to open, and then click, hold, and drag the file to the folder.
• If the folder is in My Documents and the file is on the desktop, double-click My Documents to open, and then click, hold, and drag the file to the folder.

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