Defragmentation - Part 2 (How to??)

In this article, we will see how practically we can defragment a disk on our computer. For this, we don’t need any 3^rd party software instead we are going to use a native Windows application, which is installed along with our Operating System.

For this type “defrag” in our start menu to launch “Defragment and Optimize Drives” application. This can also be launched through the command prompt by typing “defrag” in the command window.

Press enter to launch the application and you will find the window similar to the one below.

We shall see about few settings here.

1.      Change Settings

On click of this we can schedule the defragmentation to happen automatically in a defined frequency of either daily, weekly or monthly depending on the usage and storage of your hard disk drives.

 

 

We can also choose the drives to be defragmented in this defined frequency by selecting “Choose”.

 

 

 

2.      Analyze:

This option will analyze if disk defragmentation is really needed for the disk and update the status column on how much percentage of HDD is fragmented.

 

3.      Optimize:

This option will Analyze and based on the result, it will optimize the disk by defragmenting. This is the option we are going to select to defragment the disk. 

Once the disk is defragmented, percentage of fragmented disk should be 0% as in first image.

 Your computer by doing this should be faster than before !!

Watch it in Action (English):

Watch it in Action (Tamil):