Windows Vista™ Plain & Simple

Maintaining Your Hard Disk

With time and use, your computer’s contents can become a bit disorganized. As the information stored in the computer gets used, moved, copied, added to, or deleted, the computer’s hard disk, or drive, can become cluttered with useless or inefficiently organized files. Windows Vista provides a group of maintenance tools whose occasional use can make your computer run more smoothly, more efficiently, and (usually) faster. The table below describes what each of these tools does.

Maintain a Drive

1. Click the Start button, choose Computer from the Start menu, click the drive that needs attention, and click Properties on the toolbar ...