Defrag the Hard Drive

I do this fairly frequently. Once a month or so. There are a few things I do first to make sure I don't waste time defragging unnecessary files.

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First is to delete the Internet Explorer Temporary Files and History.
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Second is to delete TMP and BAK files.
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Third is delete any files and directories in the \TEMP and \WINDOWS\TEMP directories
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Defragment without the swapfile. The instructions for this can be found at Defragmenting the Swap File
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Windows Xp has a built-in utility called Disk Cleanup. You can run it from either the Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Disk Cleanup or directly run CLEANMGR.EXE

Via: Techmaestro