2 Ways to Defrag Hard Drive in Windows 11 to Make it 2X Faster

2 Ways to Defrag Hard Drive in Windows 11 to Make it 2X Faster
Geekers -  How to defragment a hard drive in Windows 11 is a solution to speed up computer performance. The function of the hard drive defrag is to be able to help your computer's performance become faster in accessing the files you request. To do a defrag, you can take advantage of the built-in features of the Windows operating system.


So to do a defrag, you don't need to use other applications or software. Very simple, right? Then what computers must be defraged? You can defrag your hard disk if your computer's performance decreases.



As you know, the longer the computer is used, the lower the performance of the hard drive on your computer. This is because the hard drive tries hard to find pieces of files that exist in various locations. To overcome this, you can defrag the hard drive.


List of contents

   * How to Defrag Hard Disk in Windows 11

   + 1. Using Tools Deregment and Optimize Drives

   + 2. Using the Control Panel Menu


How to Defrag Hard Drive in Windows 11


You can defrag your hard drive using the built-in features of your computer or laptop. Even though every computer can defrag automatically, we don't have to defrag it manually. However, this was done inconsistently.



The way this hard disk defrag works is by rearranging the files on your computer and then combining them into the free space on your computer back into a single folder. That way, the performance of your computer will be faster and more efficient.


You can defrag your hard disk in Windows 11 in the following ways very easily. Please follow the step by step instructions below, OK?


1. Using Tools Deregment and Optimize Drives


Defrag has the benefit of providing a lot of space on the hard drive that we use. Not only that, a defrag computer will be more stable and can work optimally than usual.


This is because your hard drive storage space is a little relieved from before. Here's how to defrag a hard drive in Windows 11 using the Dfragment and optimize drives tool.


1. To display the Defragment and optimize drives menu, please search via the search button in Windows 11. After that, type defragment and optimize drives in the search menu. After it appears, then click the tool.


click defragment and optimize drives click defragment and optimize drives


2. Then the Optimize Drives window will appear. Click the Optimize button.


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3. When it's finished optimizing, you can make a schedule to defragment your computer's hard drive. The trick is to click the Change Settings button in the Scheduled Optimization section.


click change settings click change settings


4. Then choose which drive you want to defragment. Here I select all the drives installed on my computer. Then click the OK button.



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5. Here you can choose the frequency to do the defrag. I choose to defrag every once a week. After that click the OK button.


click ok click ok


2. Using the Control Panel Menu


Control panel is a built-in tool from Windows to be able to manage everything on your desktop. With this Control Panel menu, you can also defragment your computer's hard drive. Here's how to defrag in Windows 11 using the Control Panel menu.


1. You can display the Run program via the keyboard button. The trick is to click the Windows key + R. Then type the control panel command. And click the OK button.


click Win + R click Win + R


2. If the Control Panel window appears, then you can click the Category button which is located in the upper right corner. After that, click on the Small icons menu.


click small icons click small icons


3. Then you can click on the Windows Tools menu.


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4. Click the defragment and optimize drives menu.


click defragment and optimizes drives click defragment and optimizes drives


5. To defrag, please click the Optimize button. And wait a few moments until the defrag process is complete.


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Those are some ways to easily defrag the hard disk in Windows 11. Hopefully the method above can help your computer work more optimally than usual.

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