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How To Defrag Your Windows XP Hard Drive


Jeff Brown of Alpha Computer shares a step by step video guide on how to defrag your computer hard drive with Windows XP. Defragging your hard drive can speed up your computer. Check out http://www.alphacomputer.ca for more stuff. "Used with permission from Microsoft."

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: alphacomputerca

Length: 02:25
Rating: 4.958763
Views: 53599

Tags: defragment computer training  

Video Comments

alphacomputerca (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@Gennady100 Click Start>>All Programs>>Accessories>>System Tools>>Disk Cleanup. When you are given options for files to clean out, you will see that most are temporary files and safe to remove. I also like CCleaner for removing temp files.
Gennady100 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@alphacomputerca how do i do disk cleanup? and will it remove things that i might want?
alphacomputerca (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Look for my video on run chkdsk @Bestever2Pac You should be able to find it with the rest of my videos. It will show you what to do to proceed ahead. Let me know how you make out :-)
alphacomputerca (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
SQM - Windows Live Messenger Log File (Microsoft Corporation) @Gennady100 They were not created by defrag. Did you do a disk cleanup before doing a defrag. Temp files build up that just sit on hard drive. Removing them using "Disk Cleanup" will make more room on hard drive.
Bestever2Pac (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
hey ive tried to defrag in that same place in the vid but it says run chkdsk or sumthin like that plz help me out kus i need to defrag my comp
Gennady100 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I had maaaany red files parts, most of them are gone now, but i didnt see any difference in speed performance, and i noticed that there are a bunch of files, SQM files lieing around on my local disk (C) i dont even know what they do, were they created along with the defragmentation? as well as another fie with random letters as its name :(
Gennady100 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@alphacomputerca Ok then, thanks! I'm going to do it now :D
alphacomputerca (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I always try to have lots of room on my hard drive @DarkerKamz to keep it running fast. I change computers quite often to keep up with changing tech.
alphacomputerca (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I liked it too @Polyunki Maybe in the next Operating System :-) It's funny, people really liked the XP defrag. Microsoft should have left it.
Polyunki (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@alphacomputerca It's a shame they've taken out all the detailed onscreen information, it wasn't like it was hard to understand.

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