I thought I'd share another little piece of free software that I think everybody should be using: Defraggler. I myself run this program multiple times a day to prevent my harddrive from becoming anywhere near fragmented (however you should note, I'm pretty anal about my computer, and you by no means need to run it that much).
An extremely common reason that a computer slows down is having a hard drive that is highly fragmented. To put in somebody else's words that I just found on google:
A fragment is a piece. If you drop a vase on a concrete floor, you get fragmentation of the vase. Lots of little pieces. Which is pretty much what your data looks like on your hard drive after you've been using it for a few months. Ever try to stick all the little pieces of a smashed vase together again? Well, that's kinda what your computer has to do to get that file that you just tried to open. It's first got to find all those little pieces and stick them all together again, and then present this stuck together file to you.
An extremely common reason that a computer slows down is having a hard drive that is highly fragmented. To put in somebody else's words that I just found on google:
A fragment is a piece. If you drop a vase on a concrete floor, you get fragmentation of the vase. Lots of little pieces. Which is pretty much what your data looks like on your hard drive after you've been using it for a few months. Ever try to stick all the little pieces of a smashed vase together again? Well, that's kinda what your computer has to do to get that file that you just tried to open. It's first got to find all those little pieces and stick them all together again, and then present this stuck together file to you.
Haha I loved defragging my mom's computer with the stock windows XP tool. 5 hours later it may or may not have been done. I'll check his out.
ReplyDeleteI would just be careful when using the optimize feature with this bad boy, sometimes it ends up blue screening your comp, or at least mine.
ReplyDeleteJust be careful not to use it too much
ReplyDeletemoar posts soonn man ? D:
ReplyDeleteWow, it has been a while hasn't it? Its been a busy weekend for me, and I'm working on a website for my band which has been pretty time consuming. but rest assured, within the hour I'll start working on another one.
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