How to Speed-Up Your Hard Drive
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to speed up and optimize your hard drive by defragging it with a protocol JkDefrag which is a free program. Open up any internet browser and type in the address bar kessels.com/jkdefrag then hit “enter”. This is the site of JkDefrag. You could read up on this on your own. To download it, just go downwards as download and click the appropriate link. If you have a 32 bit version of Windows, 2000, XP, Vista, choose this one.
If you have Vista 64 bit or XP 64 bit, choose this one. It will explain right here. I'm downloading this to my Vista 64 bit computer, so I'll choose this one. If you're not sure most of you out there have either XP 32 bit or Vista 32 bit. I would say the best majority for you. Just choose this link, whatever the current version is at the time when you download it, save and go to the exact download location. If you have Firefox, just right click on this link, open containing folder and it will show you exactly where it downloaded to.
You're going to just close this up. Now I'm just going to drag it over to my desktop. You can extract it to the desktop. Here is the folder it extracted it to. Open it up and this is very, very simple.
All you have to do is just double click this to execute it. Click “run”. And it does everything automatically. You don’t have to do anything from here on out. The speed of the defrag process varies on computer to computer. The faster CPU you have, the faster hard drive, and the more RAM you have, the faster the whole process will take.
During this whole process, JkDefrag will perform several steps listed here and don’t be surprised if it takes about two hours the first time you actually defrag your computer. Make sure you have all other programs closed and nothing running like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Microsoft Word, Photoshop, make sure everything is closed or else it may even take longer to perform.
When the whole process is complete, you'll see the screen, will it just blank out or might just say “finished” up here. Either way, just exit out of it. Click this “x”. All your files are organized, defragged. Your computer should be sped up a bit.
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