1. How to Defragment your Hard Drive. Defragmenting will optimize the hard drive making it faster to load and start programs.

2. Defrag should be done about twice a month. Click Start, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter

3. This window will show when you select defrag. Be sure to select the C: drive (highlight) and then click Defragment

4. This window will show. The time it takes to complete depends on the size of the drive and speed of the PC.

5. When completed this is what it should look like. On really bad fragmented drives you will still see plenty of red therefore you will have to perform these steps a few times more