Have you noticed that the files and folders on your Windows 10 PC take longer than normal to open? Defragging your drives is one of the best ways to solve this problem and improve the performance of your PC.

In fact, defragging your hard disk is to speed up load times for files. By default, Windows will save files in fragments across the disk. Each time you load, save, delete or rewrite the files, the fragments are created and scattered. A defrag tool will rearrange the data into one place to make the load time shorter to open.

Windows 10 does a good job of identifying the different types of storage and scheduling the proper optimization for each one. But you may also want to consider installing a more advanced disk defragmenter of Neptune SystemCare Ultimate with extra optimization function, with which you can improve other Windows 10 performance at the same time.

How to Defrag in Windows 10

1. Open the disk optimization tool by searching for defrag in the taskbar. Defragment and optimize your drives will pop up. Click on this.

2. Select your hard drive and click Analyze. Note that if you have an SSD, this option is grayed out and not available. So you do not have to consider about the SDD defragment problem.

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

You might want to keep your fragmentation percentage less and less. If the number is high, the defragmentation process might take too long to finish.

4. If you want to defragment your drive, click Optimize. You can do other things on Windows 10 during the defragmentation, but it would be more efficient when you don't need to use your computer for anything else.

How to defrag Windows 10 using Disk Defragmenter

  • Open Neptune SystemCare Ultimate and click the System Tuneup tab.
  • Choose the hard disk or all of them and then click on the green Defragment button. Wait a few seconds for the analyzing and defragmenting.
  • Done.

It seems that Neptune SystemCare Ultimate is easier and faster way to defrag Windows 10. You do not have to manual intervention a lot unless you are curious and try to confirm that fragmentation is holding steady at 0 percent.