User's Manual

How to Defragment Your Hard Disk
1. Launch the TuneUp Drive Defrag module by going to the Optimize system category in the Start Center
and selecting Defragment hard disk under Manually run maintenance tasks.
Alternatively, you can start the module by going to Overview of all functions in the Start Center and
selecting the Defragment entry under Hard disk.
2. Solid-state drives (SSD) are detected by TuneUp Utilities. They are not analyzed or defragmented, as it is
not possible to optimize solid-state drives through defragmentation and they could be damaged by defrag-
mentation.
3. Select which hard disks should be checked for optimization potential.
4. Select how defragmentation should take place according to the analysis.
As TuneUp Drive Defrag offers two different types of defragmentation (see Introduction, p. 71), you must
specify whether the defragmentation type should be dependent on the analysis before you start the anal-
ysis.
Out of the four options, the first one is preselected because it gives you a personal recommendation after
the analysis and you can decide for yourself how the defragmentation should be carried out.For the
other three options, defragmentation starts as soon as the analysis is complete. If, however, the analysis
determines that the degree of defragmentation is very low, defragmentation will not be carried out for
these three options because TuneUp Drive Defrag deems it unnecessary.
Wait for result and then decide
We recommend this option for you. Once analysis is complete, you decide for each hard disk whether you
would like to run a fast or thorough defragmentation. You can also decide here to go without defrag-
mentation.
Automatically as recommended
TuneUp Drive Defrag makes the decision for you and defragments each hard disk as soon as the analysis
is complete using the mode suited to the degree of fragmentation.
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