Countless people don’t think about maintenance until somethingn disastrous happens, but you have the good fortune to be thinking about it now. On occasion, your computer’s hard drive just needs to be cleaned up a bit. With the defrag procedure, your computer finds ways to reallocate the data on your hard drive. Think of your hard drive like a sock drawer with the contents of it being your data. Now, imagine if you were to open your sock drawer and all of your socks were not paired up and jumbled.

This is what your data looks like over long periods of time without defragmentation. The defragmentation procedure will pair up all the like data making it easier and faster to retrieve.

Defragmenting your computer is an excellent initial step when performance is not at its best. Keep in mind, you are maintaining at this point.

Executing the operation at least once a week is a great idea for those who use their computer every day and saves lots of documents and files. The best thing about Windows is that these safeguarding operations can be set up on a schedule so that they can labor behind the scenes without any user involvement.

 

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Here is the Basic procedure for defragmenting your hard drive.

 

1. Double click on the My Computer icon.
2. Now right click on the drive that you would like to defragment.
3. Under the Tools tab click on the Defragment Now… button.
4. Now select Defragment.

 

Congratulations you have just defragmented your hard drive!