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Post by Mamalicious on Jul 20, 2009 12:43:29 GMT 12
I was wondering if one of you lovely people could please tell me how to do a defrag step by step in laymans terms pwetty please   Only thing I know how to do is to look at the page from the little icon thingy at the bottom of my screen  |
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Post by caronz on Jul 20, 2009 13:35:34 GMT 12
For me...
Click start button, Programmes, Accessories, System Tools - Defragment
Before I defrag, I clean out IE temp folders. To do that open IE, click on tools, internet options, then delete.... I also do disk clean up, scans etc first.
Then wahla... Faster pc
Good luck
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Post by spirit21 on Jul 20, 2009 13:37:39 GMT 12
;D good one caronz
I went to look , where to do it..
o/h always does this sort of stuff, & forgets to show me
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Post by surfingranny on Jul 20, 2009 14:42:39 GMT 12
Open my computer icon, right click on hard drive, disk clean up comes up, do that making sure ALL boxes are ticked. Then follow through with what it says (are you sure you want to do this etc), just go for it and clean up disk(s)
Then on same page that is openafter disk clean up is done, look for tab that says TOOLS, open it (usually 2nd tab in) then defrag. If comp says it doesn't need defragging, just go ahead and do it anyway.
If you don't want to go thru all that, download auslogics defragger.
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Post by Mamalicious on Jul 20, 2009 22:03:57 GMT 12
Awesome, thank you you guys....done those things (YEP I managed to work it out) :)except I haven't done the disk clean thingy, will look at that one in the morning....how do I know if the defrag is done...I didn't see anything to click on to finish?  but the bloody thing took 2 hours, so when nothing was moving anymore I just exited out of it  is this disk thingy gonna take the same amount of time?? |
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Post by ancient1 on Jul 20, 2009 23:31:23 GMT 12
That would depend on :-
1/ size of HDD
2/ how many files to check
3/ speed of processor
4/ amount of RAM
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Post by surfingranny on Jul 21, 2009 9:22:15 GMT 12
Go download auslogics defragger, takes about half an hour and does a better job. Disk clean up will take about half an hour, depending on how bad your comp is and how big hard drive is.
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Post by Mamalicious on Jul 21, 2009 11:29:41 GMT 12
That would depend on :- 1/ size of HDD 2/ how many files to check 3/ speed of processor 4/ amount of RAM  |
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Post by Mamalicious on Jul 21, 2009 11:31:00 GMT 12
Go download auslogics defragger, takes about half an hour and does a better job. Disk clean up will take about half an hour, depending on how bad your comp is and how big hard drive is. But...but...but...do I really wanna download more stuff when the comp already has it all, I just gotta learn how to use it all |
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Post by surfingranny on Jul 22, 2009 19:24:49 GMT 12
Yes you do ;D
Where windows defragger can and does take hours to go through the process, the other one takes a fraction of the time and will not hang/freeze your computer if you try to do anything worthwhile when defrag is being done
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