Darren Foster Computer Services

In this guide we will hold your hand whilst installing IObit’s Smart Defrag to your PC.

So firstly here is a video of the process of downloading, installing and using Smart Defrag provided by the ComputerTechTV Youtube Channel Found here…

http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerTechTV

The owner of the video below is Rick Arter.

To keep your computer running at its best, you should defragment your hard drive. Defragmenting your hard drive improves your computer’s performance and is something you should be doing regularly.

A fragmented hard drive is the number one cause of a slow PC next to not having enough memory.

NOTE – To see any of the images below any bigger just click on the image and them click the back button on your browser to bring you back to the guide.

So lets get started here is the link to the website for IObit’s Smart Defrag.

http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

To download the program click <<<< here >>>> Courtesy of the Major Geeks Website…

Once you click on the above link you will see the image below in Google Chrome or something else if your using a different browser. Just follow your nose if your using a different browser or ask in the comments if your not sure.

Click on save and once its downloaded you will see this…..

Double click the defragsetup.exe box that you see above and you should then see this….

Click Run to continue and you will then see this….

Click Next and the License Agreement pops up like this….

Click your mouse in the ‘I accept the agreement’ hole. Then click Next…..

OK now just click Next……

Again nothing to do here just click Next….

Make sure both boxes are ticked here and click next….

Now click on install….

Once its installed you will get this box…. Untick ‘View what’s new’ then click ‘Finish’

So next the program will open up just like in the image below. But before we get started with the defrag lets get you started up on automatic defragging on a regular basis lets say on a two weekly basis. This should keep your PC in Tip Top Shape. Then we will make a start on giving your PC a good Defragging.

So this is what the Smart Defrag Program looks like.

Ok so lets get started getting it set for regular defragging…

Click on the Schedule button on the left hand side…..

Now put a tick in the next to the hard drives that you want to defrag in my case i only have the one drive on this machine and its the C: drive.

In the Options section tick the Enable Schedule box and from the Action drop down menu select ‘Deep Optimize’

Everything should look as it does above….

Now click on the ‘Auto Defrag’ Button on the left and you should get something like this…..

Now click on the ‘Recommended’ button at the bottom and then click on ‘Apply’

That’s that little section done. Now click on the ‘Defrag Now’ button on the left.

Here we are at the main screen….

So as in the above image put a tick next to the C:\ or next to the drives that you want to defrag. Then select ‘Deep optimize’ from the drop down menu as you can see in the image above. Now click on the Start button.

You should see something like this start going on….

If it looks something like this it really needs to be defragged. As you can see in the image above there is a lot of Red those are Fragmented Files. The actual number of Fragmented files is listed at the bottom of the screen. Mine was 1751 not bad. I turned my Auto Defrag off a while back for some work that i needed to do and forgot to reset it. Done on a fortnightly basis your machine will run nice and smoothly without the worry of having to remember to do it.

Unlike other Defragging programs you can work whilst this is defragging in the background.

I look forward to your comments.