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Today I’ll show you how to defragment and optimize your hard drive on Windows 11 (this works for Windows 10 also). Sometimes your hard drive can become slow, throw errors, freeze (BSOD), or crash, all due to a badly fragmented hard drive. The defragment and optimize process aims to fix these types of errors.

Contents

• Defragment & optimize hard drive on Windows 11
• Conclusion
• See Also
• Further Reading

Defragment & optimize hard drive on Windows 11

1. Open File Explorer and click This PC from the left-side menu
   
2. Right-click on the drive which has the Windows logo displayed on it (usually Local Disk C) and click Properties
   
3. Clcik the Tools tab, then click Optimize
   
4. Select the drive with the Windows logo on it, then click Optimize
   
5. Windows will begin to defragment and optimize your hard drive which should take between 5 minutes and 1 hour
   

Conclusion

I hope everything went well and your Windows 11 PC is running better. If not, I have other guides for running Disk Check and resetting Windows too. If you want to contact me, hit me up in the comments or socials/email.

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See Also

• Perform disk error check (chkdsk) on Windows 10
• Reset or Refresh Windows 10

Further Reading

• Ways to improve your computer’s performance