How do I defrag my hard-drive?

To get started, start Disk Booster and press Defragment Now. You can then press Analyze to examine the level of fragmentation of your data as well as view a visual map of your hard-drive.

After Disk Booster has examined your hard-drive, it will then advise you whether defragmentation is necessary or not. You can ignore the advice and still proceed with defragmentation, by selecting Defragment rather than Analyze.

Disk Booster will then proceed to defrag your hard-drive. When you run defrag for the first time, this may take some time. After the first defrag is completed, subsequent defrags should take less time, as a proper maintenance regime is set in place to prevent excessive file defragmentation before it happens.

The Autodefrag option can continue to work silently in the background, defragging your hard-drive when your PC is idle. You can also customize these settings and add additional hard-drive or SSDs (solid-state drives) or SD memory cards by clicking on the Autodefrag icon. However, defragging these types of solid-state drives may not show any material benefit to your PC.

You can set rules on the process priority for Disk Booster, so it does not get in the way of day to day PC operation. Go to Defragment in top menu in Disk Booster and select Process Priority.

You can choose from Below Normal, Normal and Above Normal. We recommend using Below Normal when you want to use your PC for performing other tasks during defragmentation; Normal when you are not doing CPU-intensive tasks on your PC (like playing games, etc.) – e.g. ideal for document-editing, such as in Microsoft Word, and Above Normal when you are not using your PC at all.