Have you find it takes more and more time to open a file and your disks are crammed with large numbers of files, use or useless? If so, you should be aware that the main cause of slow computer speed must be the excessive files in the folders and invisible fragments in the disks.

Therefore, if you are long for optimizing PC performance, you should spare no efforts in removing the junk files and defragment disk.

Normally, the junk and temporary files are the priority for you to get rid of. In the default condition, they are restored in the C system disk. You can find them in the “c:/Documents and Settings/Username” and “c:/WINDOWS” respectively. Since they are left by browsing on the Internet or backing up files, you feel free to get rid of them. By doing this, you have finished part of the task of speeding up computer. Besides removing such junks, the next step for you is to defragment disk.

In the first place, let us see why disk defragmentation can optimize computer performance.

Disk defragmenting program can unite fragment files and folders and arrange single and continuous disk space for restoring every file or folder so as to improve read-write speed. In this way, the system can visit and restore those files and folders faster and more efficiently. By arranging the files and folders, defragmentation can arrange available space as well and reduce the probability of creating new fragments. You see, when the files and folders reunite again, the system may spend less time restoring or reading them.

And you can defragment disk by using the program of Windows in the “Accessories”—“System Tools” and remember that scan the whole disk before defragmentation. While performing it, you are not allowed to use any application, because any read-write operation can hinder the speed of defragmentation, even cause it to restart again and again without completing the task.

The junk files and fragments are the main hindrance of optimizing computer performance. Every time you encounter low computer speed, you should remove them first. And click here for more information of optimizing computer speed.

If you ask how much it will take to defragment disk, it is rather hard to calculate. Defragmenting disk is based on many factors, including the disk size, the number of folders, fragments and the available local resource and so on. Its steps are mainly divided into three steps:

First, it is to find all the fragmented files and folders ahead of analyzing the disk. Then it will see how these fragments are produces. Finally, it can defragment disks. But if you use the disk defragmenter of Windows, it is really taking a lot of time. An hour or more is quite normal for defragmenting a disk.

So, if you want to speed up defragmentation just like speed up computer, it is wise for you to use a third-party defrag which is faster and more efficient than the one provided by Windows. Beside, it is easier to operate. You are welcome to have a try by clicking here