Defragging the Hard Drive

[SpearMan]

Regardless of the version of Windows on your PC, it is possible for you to "defrag the hard drive."
Defragging the hard drive means you can take all the pieces of files that get broken apart and scattered on various parts of the platter and put them all back close together again.

This means that the platter won't have to spin so much to find the scattered pieces and they will be all close together again.
Not spinning so much means faster file access.
Faster file access means programs seem to go a lot zippier.

[Itronix]

Here's the trick on how to defrag your hard-drive

>Close all programs that are running (besides this browser window, of course)

>On the top-left corner of your screen, is the "My Computer" picture. Click it twice.

>Now you see all the familiar things-A: , C: and probably a D: >> Select the one that says C: and then right-click.

>A menu should appear. Click on Properties near the bottom of the menu.

>In the gray box that just opened up, click on the tab on top called "Tools"

>On the right side are some buttons. Click on the one that says "Defragment Now"

>Start the process with either a click on the Defragment button