What is defragmentation? Well it's basically giving your computer a good old spring clean so it runs more efficiently and faster too. Did you know that everything you do on your computer takes up some space - a lot of people don't realise this - not just downloading files but even just looking at a webpage uses space. In time this becomes wasted space and it also slows everything down. Thankfully there is an easy solution.

The clean up is a two step process. Step one gets rid of everything that's not needed so straight away you've freed up extra space. Step two takes care of the defragmentation. This is not nearly as strange as it sounds!

What it means is when files are removed and deleted they leave a space, but this space is more like a hole or a gap. Defragging repairs all the holes and gaps giving you a brand new space to work with and reuse.


This is good housekeeping and it only needs to be done approximately every few months or so. The good news is that your computer does all the hard work for you. With just a few clicks it locates all the unwanted files, deletes them and then it defrags. Easy!

Important Note:Step One could take an hour or so and, Step Two could take a few hours or more - depending on the size of your clutter! Choose an appropriate time to do this - bedtime is a good time to do Step Two and let it run while you're sleeping. It'll all be worth it in the morning!

Step One - Removing unwanted files

Go to Start - this is the green button bottom left of your screen.
Click on Start and then Select My Computer. Or you may have My Computer on your desktop.
This will open a new window where you will see Local Disk C - this is your main hard drive. This is where the clean up takes place.
Right click on it and Select Properties.
Another window opens - showing you three things: how much space you have in total to use, how much space you've already used and, how much space is still free to use.
Jot down the second two figures so you can see for yourself that you really do have more space to use when you're done - this is optional!
Now Click on Disk Cleanup.
Another window opens showing you all the files that you can delete and, the amount of space that they are taking up.
Select all the boxes and Click on OK.
The unwanted files will now be removed - this may take a while - leave this same window open for Step Two.

Step Two - Defragmentation

When Step One is complete Select the Tools tab in the same window.
Click on Defragment Now and a new window opens.
Click on Analyze - again this will show you before and after Defrag.
Then Click on OK and Defragging will begin. Remember this takes a while.
When Defragging has finished you will need to Restart your computer.


And Voila! You have just removed files that were wasting space on your computer and then defragged the extra space. Everything is now neat and tidy and will run much more efficiently. Well Done!

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