Why should you still bother with disk defragmenter on Windows 10? A couple of reasons. First, hard drives, like all mechanical devices, are prone to failure. As a little preventative maintenance, defrag Windows 10 hard disk can warn you of potential problems and fix minor glitches before they can do damage to your data.

Second, the way files are organized on your drive has noticeable impact on the performance of your Windows 10computer. If your files are stored tidily, end-to-end, without fragmentation, reading and writing to the disk is definitely faster than that of messy ones.

When to defrag Windows 10

Although the process of opening a file happens quickly, it makes a lot of work for your hard disk—the read or write needs to move across the drive platter from location to location transferring data and zip all over the place, when you save or open a single fragmented file. Therefore, you would want to defrag the hard disk on a regular monthly basis, or when files are taking longer to load. And also, we get two simple solutions here to file fragmentation.

How to defrag Windows 10

Method 1  Use Disk Defragmenter

Step 1 | Open Search box from the Start menu and type defrag in. Choose Defragment and Optimize Drivers.

Step 2 | Click Analyze to check how fragmented your hard drive is.

Step 3 | Wait until the disk is analyzed. After that, click on Defragment Disk.

Method 2  The best software to defrag Windows 10

Neptune SystemCare Ultimate is an amazing Disk Defragmenter for Windows 10 computer. This optimizer easily scans and finds fragmented files out of the hard disk and arranges them in continuous memory sections. The tool works on read-only mode which ensures no damage is made to the data.

Step 1 | Launch the software and find Disk Defrag under System Tuneup tab.

Step 2 | Choose the hard disk and hit defragment button. The analyzation part is faster than the disk defragmenter in Windows 10. You can leave the program do the defragmenting and do other things else on your computer.