A Little More Technical - Disk Defragmenting
Like organizing your closets disk defragmenting will help your system keep things in good order.

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Disk Defragmenting

Open Disk Defragmenter by selecting the Start button in the bottom left corner of your screen, and then selecting in order, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and Disk Defragmenter.

If you’ve forgotten to do a Disk Cleanup before opening Disk Defragmenter, never fear, you can do so by selecting the Options from the File Pull Down Menu. You don’t get the opportunity to see the files you’ll be removing using this option, so if that’s important, cancel Disk Defragmenter and open Disk Cleanup first.

Select one or more of the hard drives listed in Disk Defragmenter and select the Analyze button.

Doing so will generate the information you need to determine if defragmenting is necessary. This may take a little while, so be patient.

If you’re drive does not require defragmenting, a notice will popup to let you know.

If it needs defragmenting, it will tell you the percentage of fragmentation. Either way, you have the option of defragmenting, viewing a report that gives you more information on fragmented files and information about how space is used on your drive, or you can close and do nothing.

If you choose to defragment plan on the process taking time. You can watch the after defragmentation graph slowly change as Disk Defragmenter does its thing, or you can walk away until it finishes.

Once finished, you can read the report generated that tells you general facts about your drive and what Disk Defragmenter has just done.

Close Disk Defragmenter and you’re done.