One of the most effective ways of speeding up your PC is to defrag your hard drive. This article contains a full layout of how to dramatically improve the health and performance of your PC by using the PC TuneUp Maestro Defrag Disk utility. We will cover, in brief, preparing your PC by removing unwanted files. Next we will lay out step-by-step instructions for using the Disk Defrag tool. To wrap up, we will cover some additional tips and features such as frequency of defragmentation and automation of the Defrag tool. So, let’s begin.
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Best Practices
There are a few best practice recommendations to outline from the start.
Clean Up: Before you can organize, it is always best to do a quick clean up. This is also true with your Hard Disk Drive (HDD). If you stop to think about it, the defragment process works to organize scattered data caused from installing, modifying, and deleting files and software. Before doing a defrag is the best time to do a quick removal of junk items including files in the recycle bin, temp files (unwanted items that are created as temporary storage), outdated cache items, log files, and more. Continue reading...