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System Procedures
Disk Cleanup and Defragment the Hard Drive
Defragment the hard drive(s) as part of your preventive
maintenance program, after archiving files to CD, or
when normal system operation appears to slow down.
Customers are taught to defrag the hard drives as part of
scheduled system maintenance. This process may take a
significant amount of time (hours). Defragmenting may
be done unattended when the instrument is not in use.
Before defragmenting a hard drive, it is desirable to
clean up any temporary files. Windows XP provides a
Disk Cleanup utility specifically for this purpose.
Step Action
1. With all applications closed, click on Start>
All Programs> Accessories> System
Tools> Disk Cleanup. A Select Drive
window opens, instructing you to select the
drive you wish to clean.
2. Select the C: drive and click on OK. The
Disk Cleanup window opens, showing you
the categories of files you may delete.
3. Accept the default settings, or highlight and
review each item in the Files to delete list to
decide which categories to delete. Click on
OK. A query window opens asking “Are
you sure...?”
4. Click on Ye s.
A status window opens to show the progress
of the disk cleanup, and closes when the
process is finished.
5. Click on Start> All Programs>
Accessories> System Tools> Disk
Defragmenter.
6. In the panel showing the local hard drives,
highlight the drive you wish to defragment.
7. Click on Analyze to have the utility
recommend further action.
8. Click on Close to close the Disk
Defragmenter report window.
Disk Cleanup Window: Step 3
Defragment the Hard Drive: Step 9
9. If the disk analysis shows numerous
fragmented files, click on Defragment to
start the defragmentation process. You may
want to start this process when you know
the instrument will not be in use for a while.
10. When the defrag process completes, an
information window opens. Click on Close.
11. Repeat steps 2-10 for the D:\drive, if
present.
12. Close the Disk Defragmenter window.
Step Action