M3
Task 12-Take a snapshot of the performance of the computer before the disk management activities and compare with the performance after the maintenance.
For my M3 I’ll be first explaining what each task does and then I will be performing disk management activities and comparing the performances after the maintenance all tasks.
The disk Management tasks I will be doing will be:
Defragmentation
Disk clean-up
Delete temporary files
Registry Cleaner
Defragmentation- Defragmentation (Defrag) is the merging of separated data on a data on a volume (for instance hard disks or other storage devices).
Why is Defragmentation needed?
To start off with there is fragmentation (fragmentation forces your hard disk to work harder), this means that your hard disk slows down and can …show more content…
Once done Disk cleanup will calculate the free space on your computer, which may take a few minutes.

After it has finished calculating the space available, you’ll see this dialog box that looks something like this:

In the tick boxes you know need to choose what spaces you want to clean up, once you have chosen from the boxes click OK.
You will see a dialog box that warns you: Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files?
Click Delete Files.
Disk cleanup will delete the files and close automatically.
This is the end of the disk cleanup.

Delete temporary files- Temporary files are recently stored information such as:
List of websites you have visited
Cookies
Information you've entered into web forms
Website Passwords
Why do you need to delete temporary files?
Well every time you browse the Internet your computer is storing the information, or when you order something online or accessing your emails, your computer is storing these temporary files to help the computer access your account or save passwords you’ve used online.
Problems with Temporary