Have you ever felt that your computer is starting to run slower? You've checked for malware as well as any hidden programs or processes that may be running, but your system continues to run slowly. Well, maybe it is just a matter of defragging your hard drive. After time, many of your system files and programs become fragmented on the hard drive. This makes the drive work harder to find all the pieces in order to perform the task. One solution is to run Iobit Smart Defrag. This is a program that "picks up the pieces" and puts them back in order. After defragging your drive many people notice a pick up in speed. The hard drive is no longer working so hard to find all the pieces and put them back together. You can set it up to run everyday at a time that is convenient for you. After the first run, subsequent runs should take less time.

One other thing to consider keeping is a program called WinDirStat. This is a great program that tells you what is hogging your hard drive. On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

• The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
• The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
• The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

Some users have reported that they found their hard drive was full of duplicate files. They moved the duplicates to a thumb drive for back ups which was what they had intended to do in the first place.