It is known to all PC Users that it is necessary to defragment the computer regularly so as to greatly optimize computer performance. But if you have ever defragmented your computer with disk defragmenter before, you will find that it is a so time-consuming action. In this article, you will find some tips on how to get a faster defragmentation when noticing that your computer is running slow.

1) Close all running programs. It is needed for programs to repeatedly read the data from the hard drive when running, which will affect the defragment speed. In the case of system instability, it will sometimes crash the computer. So to get a faster defragmentation, you’d better close all running programs and it is more appreciated to boot the computer into windows safe mode before the defragmentation.

2）Modify the registry to automatically shut down the screen saver. If not, the defragmenter will start up again and again. Regarding that it will be very troublesome to manually turn it off every time, you can click Start –> Run -> enter Regedit to open registry editor -> locate KEY_CURRENT_USER/Software /Microsoft/windows/CurrentVersion/Applets ->find whether this is “Defrag” key under this path (if not, go to create one) -> create a new key called “Settings” within the “Defrag” key -> create another key named “DisableScreenSaver” within “Settings” -> change the default string value to “YES”. Hence, in the following defragmentation, the system will automatically turn off the screen saver.

3) Change the location of the temporary folder. IE will generate a large number of temporary files within the directory: Temporary Internet Files (normally in C:\windows\Temporary Internet Files). Every time when we surfing the internet, the hard disk will frequently read / write these files, resulting in lots of fragments and slow down computer. To avoid this , you can design the temporary directory to another partition：A)  Create a new directory in other partition to store the temporary files. B)  Click Start -> Control Panel -> double click Internet Options -> click Settings within Internet Temporary Files -> click “Remove folders” to the directory you just created.

4) Keep sufficient disk space. It will slow down the programs and the defragmentation when there is only a little space left down. So it is much better to retain sufficient disk space. Normally, it will be more than 15% available for relatively smaller hard disk partition, and 5% for bigger ones, and at lease 200MB for boot partition.

After the preparations above, you can go to defragment the computer in a much faster speed. But in my opinion, it will be better to depend on a professional defrag program to thoroughly defragment computer because of the lower efficiency of the window’s built-in defragmenter.

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