Defragmenting your drive??
One thing you really benefit from every month is
"defragmenting"
your hard drive. As you add, change, rearrange, and delete files,
information stored on the hard drive, it can become very unorganized.
Information is stored in bits and pieces here and there so that Windows
has to grab data from all over your hard drive when you open a file.
That slows down the system. You can organize things by defragmenting
your hard drive, which essentially puts pieces of individual files back
together. When done, Windows can more easily and quickly access your
files. You should defragment your drive at the end of every month.
How to defragment?
- Click Start>My Computer. If you have a My Computer
icon on
your desktop, you can double-click it. Windows displays the My Computer
window.
- Right-click the drive you want to defragment and choose “Properties” from the context menu.
- Windows displays the drive’s Properties dialog box. Click the Tools tab.
- Click Defragment Now.You see the Disk Defragmenter window.
- You can then defragment by clicking Defragment.
The
process tends to take some time, depending on the information that is
stored on
your system. This is a time consuming activity but we recommend that
you do it at
least once a month.
After performing all these weekly and monthly tasks, your system should be moderately clean. Now, the next step is to speed up Windows XP by tweaking some settings.
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