Have you ever tried to defragment disk in hope to speed up your computer, but only to encounter a mass of problems? If so, you cannot afford to miss this article, because you can find the methods to solve it in it.

First of all, you should know how to defragment it in the Windows. You can click “Start”> “All Programs”> “Accessories” > “System Tools” > “Disk Defragmenter”, in the dialog box, you can choose one or all the disk to defragment and then click “OK”. During defragmentation, you can click “View Report” to see the current defragmenting process. But, if you cannot find such disk defragmenter program in the accessories, it means that you do not install it before. So you can install it by clicking “Start” > “Control Panel” > “Add/Remove Programs” to accomplish that.

Though you can use this program, if you use it incorrectly, it is vulnerable of problems. So, here are some tips for you to defragment smoothly.

It is a must for you to close down all the applications when defragmenting and not to perform any read-write operation to it. If the disk defragmenter finds any such operation, it may start to defrag again and again.
You should defragment disk at proper intervals. Normally, the frequently used disk partition is supposed to be cleaned up once a week, like C disk. As for the special disk, you even have to do that once a day. In other word, you should defragment different disks based on different using situations.
Some Windows system can rearrange the program files in the disk so as to faster the program startup. However, such function is really time-consuming and inefficient. If you want to often defragment disk, you can cancel such function by clicking “Settings” in the driver choose dialog box and crossing out the option of rearranging the program files to faster the program startup.

All in all, you should be very careful in defragmenting disk. But, if you think it is rather energy-consuming, you can turn to certain tools to save your energy and time.