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Overtime the performance of Windows 10 tends to become sluggish. This happens primarily due to the scattering of critical system files over an installation drive, requiring the OS to search for them in multiple places. This causes the OS to become what is known as fragmented. One of the ways in which you can optimize your installation of Windows 10 is by defragmenting the partition on which your OS is on. It should be noted that due to the internal physical architecture of an SSD, it is only advised to defrag a platter/mechanical drive.
In essence if your installation is on an SSD the "Analyze" button should be grayed out. Within the same window you'll see the fragmentation percentage at which your drives stand with advice on which partition's require a defragmenting session.
Like all things in a system, a proper system maintenance ensures that it's serving the end user at his/her hour of need. In order to have defragmentation executed efficiently it's recommended to keep any work pending be put on hold while the process takes place. In some circumstances it may take a long while to defrag depending on your degree of fragmentation. It's advised to have this maintenance run scheduled for the end of every week or month. It's also advised to keep your fragmentation percentage below 10% as a larger figure represents more time in order to defragment a partition.
You've successfully performed defragmentation on your system!
If you'd like you can change the schedule for when Windows performs defragmanting duties.
SSD's are excluded from the list but if it happens to come around then be sure to remove it if it's checked for a defragmentation schedule.
- ■In the Start Menu Search Field type
Defrag
or
Optimize
■Click "Defragment and Optimize drives"
■Select your hard drive
■Click "Analyze"
In essence if your installation is on an SSD the "Analyze" button should be grayed out. Within the same window you'll see the fragmentation percentage at which your drives stand with advice on which partition's require a defragmenting session.
- ■Clicking on "Optimize" while the selected drive is highlighted will initiate the defragmention process for the selected partition.
Like all things in a system, a proper system maintenance ensures that it's serving the end user at his/her hour of need. In order to have defragmentation executed efficiently it's recommended to keep any work pending be put on hold while the process takes place. In some circumstances it may take a long while to defrag depending on your degree of fragmentation. It's advised to have this maintenance run scheduled for the end of every week or month. It's also advised to keep your fragmentation percentage below 10% as a larger figure represents more time in order to defragment a partition.
You've successfully performed defragmentation on your system!
If you'd like you can change the schedule for when Windows performs defragmanting duties.
- ■Click on "change settings" in the lower right hand corner
upon which you'll see options for frequency
and the drives on which the process will occur
SSD's are excluded from the list but if it happens to come around then be sure to remove it if it's checked for a defragmentation schedule.
- ■Click OK to exit to Defragmentation main window.
■Click on close to Exit.
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