Perform Monthly Tasks
Once a month—perhaps on a different day from the one on which you perform your weekly tasks—set aside about a half hour to perform several additional maintenance tasks: emptying your Trash, running Disk Utility, testing your backups, cleaning your screen, cleaning your pointing device, exercising your notebook’s battery, and checking for ebook updates.
Empty Your Trash
I have no doubt that some readers are now concluding I’m out of my mind. Empty my Trash once a month?! What could he be thinking? The thing is, of those people, some of them are thinking that once a month is far too seldom, while others are thinking it’s far too often!
Your Trash, as you probably know, is just another folder (technically, several folders ...
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