Windows 8 – How to defragment your hard drive?

• Click on the Charms Bar > Optimize Drives.
• The Optimize Drives dialog shall open, displaying the list of drives.
• Select the drive of your choice (Note that: the Current status field will give you the % fragmented) and click on *Optimize.
• The defragmentation process will start.

Does Windows 8 have Disk Defragmenter?

In Windows 8, you can open the Charms bar and search for Optimize Drives. Luckily, you can still search disk defragmenter and it will load the correct feature. You can manually optimize or defragment a drive in Windows 8/10 by selecting it and then clicking on the Optimize button.

What does a defragmenter do to your computer?

“Defragging” is short for “de-fragmenting” and it’s a process run on most hard drives to help make accessing the files on that disk faster. Traditionally, it’s something you need to do periodically as files on the disk become more and more fragmented over time (hence, the term “defragmenting”).