[Tut] Defragmentation and Disk Cleanup.

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In this tutorial, I will show you how to cleanup your hard drive with disk defragment and disk cleanup.

Disk Cleanup

• Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup.
  
  
• You should get a screen like this;
  
  
  Pick which drive you want to cleanup, i'm just going to do my C: drive. Click ok when you pick which drive you're going to clean.
  
• A screen like this should come up for a few minutes 5-10 usually depending on the last time you did it.
  
  
• When it's done pick the categories you want to be cleaned.
  
  
  Hit ok and a pop-up box will come up and say "Are you sure you want to do this" hit yes and it will start cleaning it up. Give it 5 minutes or so and you're done with disk cleanup.

Disk Defragment

• Open up Disk Defragmenter by going to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter.
  
• You will be given a screen like this;
  
  
  This screen basically shows all your hard drives, how much space they have and how much space is left on them.
  
• For this tutorial I will defragment my C: drive. Click on the drive you wish to defragment and press defrag, it will analyze the drive then begin to defragment.
  
  
  Now the program is defragmenting all your files, your fragmented files are all the red ones, you will see them move around a bit and at the end there will be less red ones then when you began. This process can take from 5 minutes to an hour or more.
  
• When done it'll come up with a list of stuff that tells you what it did, it doesn't make much sense to most people though, I just hit ok and go back to the Defragmenter and look to see how many red bars are left.