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Summary: In order to defrag a computer, one must go to Start, select My Computer and right-click it, go to Manage and choose disk defragmenter under the Storage section. Defrag a computer hard drive to improve its speed and performance with tips from an IT and computer specialist in this free video on computer technology.
Robert Vicencio has worked in information technology (IT) for over 15 years. He started out as a desktop engineer, became a systems engineer, a project manager, and now an IT manager....read more
"Hi, I'm Robert and today I'm going to show you how to defrag a computer. Windows XP is a trademark of Microsoft and I am not in anyway affiliated with Microsoft. To defrag a computer, go to start, my computer, right click on my computer. Go to manage. Under storage, there's a disk defragmenter selection. Click on that and you'll get this menu. First thing you want to do is to analyze your hard drive. In this case, it will be your C drive. Click analyze and what it does is it will show you the state of your hard drive if you need defragmenting or not and as you see, it is completed and for this particular case, my drive is fairly new so I do not need defragmenting on this drive but if it does, it will tell you that you need it. For all tends of purposes, let's just do a defrag and just to show you what will happen in the background. It takes awhile for Windows XP depending on how much you have on your hard drive. It could take from an hour or two. Two hours to do a defrag. When defragmenting is completed, it will show you in a screen that the process is complete and in that point in time what I suggest is reboot your computer just to clear all the cash out and you good to go."
eHow Article: How to Defrag a Computer
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