Recently, I published an article on how to increase your computer's speed. I also stated defragmentation as one of the ways in which you can increase your computer's speed.
Today, I'm going to be categorically explaining the confusing but simple task of defragmentation!
I have previously stated what defragmentation is but for the purpose of emphasis, I would repeat it. A fragmented disk is a disk that has been fragmented :-).
Okay, lemme be plain, the way computers have been programmed to save files in their respective disks is very disorderly. For instance, a file saved in your disk can be arranged in such a way that the beginning of the disk, that's where some parts of the file is written.
Some parts? Yeah! Some parts are written at the beginning of the the disk. You may want to ask, what happens to the remaining parts? The remaining parts would then be written the end or middle of the disk, or where ever else the computer 'sees' space.
This is quite a disorderly pattern and if you take a good look at it; when you finally need to call up the saved file, the computer starts sorting the disk for the actual file you've requested from whatever number of spaces it had written them. This can make your computer respond slowly at times. This process of scattering files where ever the computer deems fit is fragmentation, and the files scattered in such manner are known as fragments.
Now defragmentation is the process of sorting these files that have been scattered all over the disk and arranging them in an orderly manner. Hope you get my drift?
You don't :-|?
Read it again ;-)
To defragment your disk, follow the simple steps outlined below.
1) From your Start menu, go to Control panel.
2) At the top right corner, on the same line with adjust your computer's settings, you'd see View by:, make sure to select category.
3) Now click on System and Security.
4) Next, Click on Defragment Your Hard Drive. It's usually below Administrative tool.
If nothing happens, look for and a program in your task bar with the name, disk defragmenter.
Alternatively, goto Computer from a your Start menu. Right click on one if the Disk drives, select properties. A dialogue box pops up! Now select the Tools tab at the top of the dialogue box.
Select Defragment now.
5) Okay hold on... Before you get all jumpy, Select the disk you want to defragment, say Disk (C:).
6) Click on Analyze Disk.
7)Wait for the analysis to be complete. You should now see what percentage of the disk is fragmented. You can now chose whether or not to run defragmentation. I for one usually run defragmentation once 10% of my disk is fragmented.
8) Once you've made your choice to defragment, click on Defragment Disk.
It should start defragmentation. For best results, you should run your defragmentation when you are sure you don't need to use the computer urgently. If however you start defragment in and then you see the need to use the computer, you can stop the defragmentation by clicking on Stop operation.
You can also schedule defragmentation to run whenever you want it to run. To do schedule defragmentation, simply:
1) Click on Configure Schedule still on the Disk defragmenter interface.
2) Set the frequency of schedule e.g, Monthly,
3) Day of Schedule e.g, 24
4) Time of schedule e.g 7:00pm
5) Select Disks to defragment by clicking Select Disks.... Tick as many disks you want or better still, thick (Select all disks)
That's it! Now you've known how to run defragmentation on your computer and I believe you've scheduled defragmentation too.
You should start experiencing a difference in your computer'computer's speed.
If you experience any difficulties please let me know and I'll reply you as soon as possible.
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