With every use of your computer, small changes occur on your hard drive. Over time these changes cause your system to become sluggish and slow, and eventually it will even cause your computer to malfunction noticeably, even causing crashes. Simply defragmenting your computer can prevent all of this from occurring. You see, your computer’s hard drive actually stores all saved information in clusters. As time passes, it is inevitable that these clusters will make your computer slower, because these fragments that comprise a single file will be spread widely across multiple clusters, especially if the files are big. Eventually all of the clusters become one big mess, making your computer very lethargic. Defragmenting your computer is actually extremely easy. Follow the simple steps below to Defragment your computer.
1. First go to “My Computer” . You can go to “My Computer” either by clicking it on your desktop, or by locating it in the Windows Start Menu.
2. Now right-click on your hard drive and then click “Properties”.
3. Now click on “Tools”
4. Then select “Defragment Now”.
5. Finally click “Defragment” and you are completely finished!
See I told you it was easy!
I recommend defragging too. It helps to prevent slowdowns and ensures that the HDD is able to deliver its best performance.
Thanks for the tutorial,
I have followed it and defragmented my five year old desktop computer it runs sooo much better now, cheers!