Simple Computer Maintenance - Defrag Your Drive

Running the Disk Defragmentation Tool
Your computer writes to the first available area on your hard drive (disk). As time goes by, the files start to be rearranged on your drive (fragmented). When your hard drive is fragmented and you try to load a program it may have to find files and components on various sections of your hard drive.  This will cause poor performance, as your computer is spending more time searching for the files it needs.

The defragment utility tries to put the files back in their origional order by organizing them in similar groups. This will allow your computer to run at optimal performance, since less time will be spent searching for files and components. Do the following:

Start Menu > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter/Check Now.

Select the drive you want to defragment. When it is done you can close the window or select another drive to defrag.


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