Defrag - Organize Your Hard Drive

After removing unused and temporary files through Disk Cleanup, now is the time reorganize the remaining files. This is done through Defragment the hard drive.

Once Disk Cleanup has finished, left click on the More Options or Tools at the top of the drive proprieties dialog box. About half way down the dialog box is Defragment Now.

The dialog box you see below will appear. Left click in the upper box the drive you want to defrag. The left click on the button that reads, Defragment. This will start an analyze and defrag the drive.

This process will take from 30 minutes to several hours. The determining factors will be the size of the hard drive, the speed of the processor, and the degree the files are fragmented.