For all Vista users, how to simply speed up Vista will probably be the first thing consideration when it comes to PCs. No matter when you searching the Internet, you will get many solutions which you can do to speed up your Windows Vista, please do not forget to regularly defragment it to speed it up in minutes.

The more fragments on the hard disk, the more time it will cost to input and output files when necessary for it requires the hard disk space to move too much to reassemble all units of the files to stay together. Hence, it will greatly slow down the computer and then shorten the lifespan of the hard disk. So to speed up your windows Vista and also maintain the hard disk, a disk defragmentation is necessary.

When talking about disk defragmentation, some will ask how often I should defragment my computer. Normally it is based on the frequency that you delete or remove files from the computer. But it is recommended that your can regularly defragment the system C drive. Considering that there is no analysis report provided by Windows Vista built-in defragmenter utility, a simplest way on how to clearly defragment Windows Vista will be shown here:
1) Go to Start Menu, All Programs and then Accessories.
2) Right click “Command Prompts” to select “Run as administrator”.
3) Type the command as follow: defrag (drive letter): –a, for example, defrag c: -a, and then press Enter.

Then a generated report will appear showing the volume size, Free space, Largest free space extent, and Present file fragmentation and suggestion on whether to defragment the volume or not. But please be patient for it will take some time to generate the report which is based on the size / fragmentation of the hard disk you select.

Then you can go to Start- > All programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter to directly defragment the volume that needs to be defragmented. Hence, it will speed up your Vista computer soon. But if you have ever defragmented your Windows Vista computer, you will find that it does not provide you any progress bar, what you get is “Defragmenting now” without knowing how many the used or remaining time is. It is acceptable when the hard disk is smaller capacity, but it will be annoyed or terrible to just sit there, waiting without doing anything.

So to own our experience, in order to more effectively speed up your Vista computer, I suggest that you should defragment it with a professional defrag program for they always applies with very advanced defragment algorithm, which ensures a complete and fast analysis of the fragments on the hard disk, and then quickly store them at the hard disk close and contiguously within only a few minutes. It my opinion, that is why so many PC users give away the lower-efficient windows built-in defragment utility when defragmenting their computer.

Of all the defrag programs I have used, I find that the one named Advanced Defrag will be very suitable to meet the shortage of Windows built-in Disk Defragment. It will quickly analyze and then reassemble the fragments found on the hard disk. What is more, it will provide you very detailed web-report, making the defragment process clear to all PC users.

As you can see that to speed up Vista, you can clearly defragment it with some very useful skills. If you have never run a disk defragmentation for Windows Vista computer, try it right now. You will find it valuable to speed up computer.