What's the easiest way to defrag my computer?

Question

Not sure how to open up the defragmenter.

Please help. Thanks

Answer 1

Right-click "My Computer", click "Manage", click "Disk Defragmenter" under "Storage" in the left pane, click the "C:" drive on the right (or whatever drive you wish to defrag) and click the button "Defragment". You can schedule this as well.

Diskeeper is pretty good commercial software that you can use as well if you're nuts about wanting to keep your drive defragmented because it will do this "on the fly."

Otherwise, there's a free utility called "SpeeDefrag" that you can download and install from http://www.vcsoftwares.com/SpeeDefrag.html. This will help keep things easy for you.

Answer 2

if you have windows hit the start button .go to all programs or find accessories then you will see system tools open that up then u will see defrag click defrag and you r ready 2 go.also you should do a disk clean up.i defrag every 4 or 5 months just to keep my system in order.

Answer 3

good to see someone wanting to learn for a change.
also, see if you can source yourself a copy on diskeeper
good defrag program and has analyse and screensaver defrag mode.

Answer 4

Go to Accessories -> Sytem tools -> Disk Defragmentor.

Feel free to IM shmifty_14 for further help.

Answer 5

it is best to use a paid one for defrag,its faster,does a better job o&o defrag
http://www.oo-software.com/

Answer 6

go into safe mode then follow smitty's advice. Do this before you go to bed and with any luck it will be finished by the time you wake up, depending on the size of the drive

Answer 7

left click my computer, right click c drive, left click properties, left tools, left click defragment now.

Answer 8

just in case you have linux, don't worry about it...

linux boxes don't need to be defragged...(at least, not if you're using ext* filesystems)