How to Defrag the Hard Drive in Windows 10

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to defrag the hard drive in windows 10. In order to minimize performance slowdowns at the hard drive level. Windows 10 includes a built-in tool to defragment your hard drive and help your PC stay at maximum speed.

Before you start, you need to make sure that the drive you are considering defragmenting is a hard drive and not an SSD drive. The defragmentation tool in Windows 10 can tell you what type of drives you have.

Here’s how to defragment your hard drive in Windows 10.
 

How to Defrag the Hard Drive in Windows 10

 

 
Step 1: Search for Defragment and Optimize Drives in the windows search box, then click on its icon.
 

 
Step 2: Select your hard drive and click on Scan. Note that if you have an SSD, this option is grayed out and not available.
 

 
 
Step 3: Check the percentage of fragmented files in the results.
 

 
Step 4: If you want to defragment your drive, click on Optimize. It’s best to do this when you don’t need to use your computer for anything else. This way you can let Windows defragment the drive efficiently.