Maintaining, Updating, and Protecting Windows 10
Crystal Panek · 2019
This chapter describes how to maintain protect and upgrade Windows 10. Windows 10 comes with many built-in maintenance tools that help to keep computers running at top performance. These tools include Disk Defragmenter, Disk Cleanup, Task Scheduler, and the Action Center Maintenance feature. Microsoft began bundling computer maintenance utilities in its early versions of Windows and has improved and expanded on them ever since. The latest utilities provide nearly any type of maintenance you might need, such as defragmenting disks, removing unnecessary files, scheduling tasks, troubleshooting problems, backing up files, and more. A hard disk is divided into many sectors, each of which can hold a small amount of data for a file. The hard disk's arm moves across a disk to “read” each sector in order to display a file or run a program. As more and more files are added to the disk, the information becomes fragmented, which means it is spread across sectors on different parts of the disk. Disk Defragmenter is a utility that helps improve your computer's performance by moving sectors of data on the hard disk, so that files are stored sequentially. This minimizes the movement a hard disk's arm must make to read all of the sectors that make up a file or program.