You can also get to both the ScanDisk and DeFrag disk from "My Computer" on the desktop (XP) or the "Computer" shortcut on the Desktop (Windows 7). In both cases no matter what the name, you press "Enter" on either one then arrow down until you reach c:\ (usually you only have to go down one), use the Windows key or right mouse button with c:\ selected to view c:\'s properties, then tab down once if you want to remove all of your excess files on the disk or shift+tab once, arrow right once, then tab down once (for disk cleaning/scanning) or twice (for defragmentation). I usually prefer doing it this way
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---- Jeff Kenyon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
Yes, that is the way you would access defrag and Windows XP. In Vista, you can access it the same way but it goes automatically on a schedule. I also run disk cleanup before a defrag anything.

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On Feb 16, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Albert Ruel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all.  In XP don't we find the Defrag icon by accessing the Start
> Menu, Programs, Accessories, then System Tools?  I just tried to add a
> Shortcut to that icon and it didn't seem to work.  BTW, Disc Clean up
> is in the same place, and I usually do that before Defragging.
> 
> Thx, Albert
> 
> 
> On 2/16/13, Claude Everett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I am running XP with service pac 3, where is the Defrag function?  Also, is
>> there a way I can set up a Icon on my desktop to get me to that function
>> faster?
>> 
>> Claude Everett
>> "First of all:  what is work?
>> Work is of two kinds:
>>  first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface
>> relatively to other such matter;
>> second, telling other people to do so.
>>  The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and
>> highly paid."
>> From The collection of essays "In Praise of Idleness" by Bertrand Russell
>> 
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