• Keep your document folders and email boxes up to date and tidy.

• Delete any unnecessary items, especially emails with large documents attached such as photographs.

• Back-up your computer data on disks or CDs regularly.

• Keep a copy of your work on a floppy disk or CD so that you will not lose important information if anything goes wrong with your computer. Many people make weekly backups of all their important data.

• Make sure you know where your original software disks are in case your computer system files get damaged.

• Do not load someone else’s software on your machine; it may be illegal to copy software for which you have not bought a licence and there is the chance that it may corrupt your machine.

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