General Maintenance Tips      One of the first thing to do is what I call a general maintenance.   This is something that you should always do on your computer about once a week at least or whenever you see that your computer is slowing down.   Some members may already be doing these but I'm going to put them here since maybe some members might be having these problems, this will make a difference.   How to delete your "Cookies" Double click on "MyComputer" Double click on "Local Disk C" Double click on "Windows folder" Double click on "Cookies" Inside the cookies folder look for and highlight "Index" or click it once to highlight it from the tool tab bar left click "Edit" Choose "invert selection" (now all the cookies should be highlighted) Right click on the highlighted cookies and choose Delete or hit the deleted button on the keyboard. When deleting cookies Never delete the index file    Clear your History File On the Explorer tool bar click on "Tools" then on "Internet options" Then click on clear history box at the bottom of that box... this will take out some cookies that are different from the ones above. Scan Disk and Defrag your Hard Drive 1. Click on the Start button, Programs, Accessories, System Tools. 2. Run Scan Disk 3. Run Defragment {Make sure that you are not connected to the internet. This can take up to a couple hours if you have not ever defraged before. Start it up and go wash the car, or wash the dishs or something to occupy yourself till it is done}.         How to Clear your Cache in I.E. Open Internet Explorer Click on View tab or Tools tab depening on what version of I.E. that you are using on your computer. Click on "Internet Options"  Click on General Tab, then "Delete Temporary Internet Files" Delete all off line content is your option. I like to delete them. Then Click "OK"  To reduce the number of times the browser checks for cached documents, click on the Settings button. Check either Never or Every time you start Internet explorer under the Check for newer versions of stored pages. Also make sure the "Amount of disk space to use" option is set to 10% or around 100MB.           Do you have a question or comment? Just click above to E-Mail the Elders of this group, and we will try to handle your issue(s) as soon as possible.   This page was last updated 11 August 04