DISK Cleanup and Defragmentation

DISK Cleanup and Defragmentation

 DISK CLEANUP

Disk cleanup tool helps to free up disk space on hard drive. It searches disk for the files that can be deleted safely. With options to choose to delete some or all the files, Disk cleanup can be used to perform tasks to free up space on hard drive such as Removing temporary Internet files, Emptying Recycle Bin, Removing windows temporary files, removing installed programs that is not used for long time and many more.To Cleanup disk, we should first click on Start button and then a click to Run. In the open box, cleanmgr should be typed and Ok should be clicked. There is another way of doing it as well. To cleanup disk, Start button should be clicked, All Programs should be pointed, then Accessories, System Tools and Click on to the Disk Cleanup. One more way of cleaning disk is to right click on the disk we want to cleanup followed by a click on properties where on gereral section we can click on disk clean up to achieve what we are doing.
[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312]


DISK DEFRAGMENTATION

Disk Defragmentation is the process of consolidating fragmented files of a hard drive. Fragmentation occurs to a hard disk as we do saving, changes or deleting files which are often stored at a location on hard disk which is not same as original file. New changes are saved to even more locations (tracks and sectors) which is really scattered. When its a long period of use, both files and hard disk become fragmanted and computer slows down. So, Disk Defragmentater is a tool that rearranges the data on our hard disks and reunites the fragmented files which will then result the better performance of the computer.To Defragment the Disk, first we should click on Start button, then to all programs, followed by Accessories, then the System Tools and a Click to Disk Defragmenter. We can also install additional softwares to defragment the drive according to our need such as Ultra Defragmenter, SpeeDefrag etc.

[http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/What-is-disk-defragmentation]
[http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/defragmentation.shtml]