Improve Tablet Performance Overnight

Give your laptop a treat! Here’s how to clean and defrag it. You may wind up benefiting from a more responsive system.

Open My Computer and right-click on the C drive > Properties. If you have less than 10% free space, it’s time to remove some files before you run the system clean-up procedures. If you have a lot of music or video files, you should consider overloading them to an external drive. A portable hard drive of 100GB can comfortably back up your files or simply act as extra storage. Delete everything from the Recycle Bin.

Both of the following procedures need a substantial amount of time to run.

From the General Tab, select Disk Clean-up. Disk Clean-up will offer to get rid of your Office files. Do Not delete them.

Go to the Tools Tab to run Defrag (I leave this running over night).

During assembly I demonstrated JDReport, a free download, that helps me tell what it taking up all my space. You can download it from http://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/index.html

It’s really important that you not let your system run out of space. Free up at least 15% and you should see some dramatic improvement.