| What is Disk Defragmenter? |
| You can think of this as your hard drive being your house, if your house is completely messy,
your dirty clothes not picked up, the dishes not done, etc. Eventually, you won't be able to find anything,
have room to use the kitchen for cooking them yummy meals! Well.. the hard drive of
a computer works same way, once its messy, its hard for the computer to find, load software, and games.
Therefore, your computer will either freeze, run poorly, or simply crash. Also, if you don't regularly run
disk defragmenter it decreases the life of a hard drive. It is very important in keeping a computer
running healthy and at its peak. |
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| How often should I run Disk Defragmenter? |
| If you are a heavy computer user, always installing software, games, or on the internet, I recommend
running disk defragmenter once a week or every 2 weeks. If you just a casual computer user, once a month is sufficent. |
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| Steps to use Disk Defragmenter: |
| Step 1: run Disk Cleanup (see tip) |
| Step 2: from Classic View (see tip) click START - PROGRAMS - ACCESSARIES - SYSTEM TOOLS - DISK
DEFRAGMENTER |
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| Step 3: click Analyze (This will ask the computer to find out how messy your hard drive is) |
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| Step 4: Click Defragment |
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| Step 5: Thats it! Just exit or close Disk Defragmenter when its done. |
