Before you run defrag

Empty your recycle bin, delete as many emails, both sent and received, as you can, then empty your "deleted items" in Outlook Express. Also, you might go through your Word documents and delete anything you don't need any more. If there are any programs you don't use, uninstall them.

Also, open your internet browser, go to Tools, then Internet Options, and click on Delete History and Delete Files.

THEN run defrag. If you use Windows XP, go to Start, then All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and Disk Defragmenter. Click on Analyze. The program will probably tell you that you need to defrag, so then click on Defragment.

Depending on the size of your hard drive, this can take quite a while (I have an 80 gig hard drive and it takes about 45 minutes to an hour). So you need to make sure you do it at a time when you're not going to need your computer for a while.

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Both rebooting your system at least once every day or two, and defragging your hard drive about once a month will pay dividends in terms of system performance.

Scandisk has nothing to do with this. Jeez!

Brian