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Sunday, 4 September 2011

Hard Drive Defragmentation

Windows Disk Defragmenter Utility let you "re-organize" the used spaces of your hard drives. You can think of your hard drive as a drawer with full of stuffs that you just dump in again and again. The problem is, when you need to find something from that drawer, you might need to spend a good amount of time to search through the mess. Same for the Windows operating system, your hard drive is the messy drawer, and Windows just has to search through it to execute your command. So it's time to re-organize it to make your PC run faster.
  1. Launch the Disk Defragmenter utility by either:
    - "Start" >> "Programs" >> "Accessories" >> "System Tools" >> "Disk Defragmenter", or:
    - "Start" >> "Run", enter "dfrg.msc" then press Enter.
  2. Select the disk you want to perform defragmentation (i.e. "Local Disk C") and click "Defragment":
 

3. Windows starts to defragment your selected hard drive as follow:


4. This process might take awhile depending on the size and usage of your hard drive. During this process, your computer might be running slow. Fortunately, you can always pause and resume the process if you want to use other applications on your PC at a normal speed.

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