4. Defragment your hard drive. Also known as defragging, defragmenting your hard drive is a process that can clear up memory and help optimize your computer's performance.

Defragment your hard drive. Also known as defragging, defragmenting your hard drive is a process that can clear up memory and help optimize your computer's performance.

The process itself is a step one takes to optimize system performance and in older versions of Windows. It was performed either through the defrag command within Windows itself or through a third ...

In the search window on the taskbar, type in "defrag," and in the resulting menu choose "Defragment and optimize drives." Highlight the "C" drive (the hard drive) and below that click "optimize." ...

Search "defragment" and select "Defragment and Optimize Your Drives." Choose the drive you want to scan and click "Analyze." Click "Defragment Disk" to defragment your hard drive.

Microsoft's latest preview of Windows 10 brings new theme-aware splash screens for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps and an improved defrag experience with a new Advanced View.

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized ...

However, you can sidestep the issue by typing ' Defrag and Optimize Drives ' in the Windows 10 search box, then highlight your SSD, click ' Change settings ', and uncheck 'run on a schedule'.