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Step 1
Defragging your drive is a good thing to do every 6 months or so. By defragging, you can actually improve load times and speed up your computer slightly, and everybody loves a faster computer. I suggest defragging for every drive you have, and more often for the drives that you use more often. If you are downloading a lot of files to your C: drive, consider defragmenting that drive more often than a storage drive you barely use.
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Step 2
Click the start button or windows button depending on what version of windows you have and find the 'accessories' folder. Inside this folder, there is another folder called 'system tools.' In system tools there is an icon for a program called 'disk defragmenter.' Open this program.
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Step 3
Analyze each drive before you defrag it. Sometimes a drive will not need to be defragmented, and you shouldn't waste your time when it won't really make your drive much faster anyway. Be patient while a drive defrags, sometimes this can take several hours or even overnight. Avoid running other programs while a drive is defragging.
