Empty your recycle bin on a regular basis.
Use the disk defragmentation or disk optimization feature of your operating system occasionally to prevent performance problems caused by an excessive number of fragmented files.
Clean out your Inbox, Sent Items, and Deleted Items folders in your e-mail application on a regular basis.
Back up critical data regularly on removable media memory, such as discs and USB storage devices, and store the removable media in a safe location. The frequency of making backup copies depends on how critical the data is to you or your business.
Back up your data on the storage drive regularly. See Recovery information.
Keep your computer software, device drivers, and operating system up-to-date. See Keeping your computer current.
Keep a log book. Entries might include major software or hardware changes, device-driver updates, intermittent problems and what you did to resolve them, and other issues you might have experienced. The cause of a problem might be change in hardware, change in software, or any other actions that might have taken place. A log book can help you or a Lenovo technician determines the cause of a problem.
Create Product Recovery discs. See Recovery information for more information about using Product Recovery discs to restore the hard disk drive to the factory-default settings.