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To do this manually in Windows XP, go to the “Start” menu, select “My Computer,”

then click on the “C” Drive icon, using the right mouse button. This will bring up a
menu; select “Properties” at the bottom, then choose the “tools” tab. Clicking the
“Check Now” button will commence the process.

At least once per week:

1) Defragment your hard drive

2) Scan for hard disk read errors

Picture your hard drive as an old-fashioned LP record player. The “record” is the
disk itself, to which data is written and read. The “tone arm” is what actually reads

and writes the data. When you open a file, the “tone arm” reads the data on your

hard drive and loads it into your computer’s RAM.