Sure Kevin, here you go.
1. Open Computer or in Windows 8.1, it is called This PC or File Explorer.
2. Highlight the disc in question, probably your C: drive.
3. Open the Context Menu by pressing the "APP" key between the Control and
Windows logo keys on the right hand side of the space bar. If your keyboard
does not have an Applications key, the menu can be opened by pressing Shift
+ F10.
4. Up arrow one time to "Properties", and press enter.
5. You will open onto the General tab. Tab down once or twice until you find
the Disc Clean Up button, and open this by pressing the Space Bar or enter.
6. Simply follow the instructions to run the Disc Clean Up utility on your
drive. This will clean up any unnecessary stuff on your drive.
7. When the Disc Clean Up finishes, close it, and then hold down the Control
key and press the Tab key. This will take you to the Tools Tab.
8. Tab down once, and you will find the Error Checking Utility, and press
enter on this to start the scan of your drive for any errors.
9. When finished with the Error Check Scan, tab down again to the Optimize
and Defrag utility, and press enter to start this process.
10. Once inside the Optimize and Defrag utility, you will see that there is
a list of drives to choose from, so arrow down to find the drive in question
and stop on it.
11. After selecting your drive, notice what it says about the state of the
drive, it will say that it has never been run, that is badly fragmented and
neeeds optimizing, or that it is OK. It may say something else, but it is
self explanatory.
12. If your drive needs optimizing, after tabbing once more, you will see
the Analyze button, which you will need to press enter on. This will find
the degree to which the drive is fragmented, and it should then comback and
say that it is OK or that it needs optimizing.
13. If it needs optimizing, then by tabbing down one last time, you will
find the optimize button, and press enter on it to optimize the drive. Once
this finishes, you will get a report on the state of the drive after
defragmenting is complete.
14. Now simply tab down to the close button and this will exit you out of
This PC completely.
Note: If a drive has any bad sectors on it, it cannot be totally
defragmented to the 0 point. If this happens, and there are only a small
number of bad sectors, then the drive should still perform well enough to
run the computer. However, once the drive gets too many bad sectors, then it
will be necessary to replace the drive. This is rare, but it does happen. In
the last 10 years, I have replaced two drives in two different computers.
I hope this helps you to get your disc back into the shape that you want it
in, and if I can be of help again, just send me a message.
Mike
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Lee
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 8:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] disc performance
Mike
can you give me the steps again in more detail because when I use the
windows defrag I just do a disc clean up then defrag which is two steps.
you described more stuff, I don't quite understand.
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