After installing various software such as my anti virus programme, I decided to defragmentate my hard drive to ensure that my hard drive data is correctly indexed so that it can fucntion as fast as possible. Defragmenting the hard drive of a computer basically means to clean and condense down all of the files you have on your hard drive and indexing them correctly in a chronological order so that the computer does not have to search the entire hard drive to find a requested file. This cuts down loading times, and the general functionality of the computer is more efficient and sometimes noticebly quicker if the defragmentatyion programme has not been run for a while. It is sometimes useful to run a defragmentation after uninstalling large installtion files such as games, as alot of files sometimes get left behind, these can slow down computer performance. As standard in both versions of XP, (home & professional edition) a disk clean up is performed before the defragmentation to remove any unused files. There is an analyse function within the defragmentation programme which allows you to quickly see what effect running the defrag. will have overall, as the actual process can sometimes be time consuming.
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Its is very important to keep the HDD clean and fast, to run diskcleanup and at regular intervals check if its fragmented using the analysis option. A highly fragmented drive spreads the slowdown disease, initially its sluggish and then even programs open slow.
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