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So lets say your hard drive is like my desk - cluttered as (...insert witty remark here...)

Everything is scrambled and spread out. That invoice is not next to the check nor the clients file. But wouldn't it be helpful if we did that? Would it save time? This is the same general principal behind defragmenting. Yes we have covered this before and we will cover it again.

When you defragment a drive you move commonly accessed files to the front and lesser used stuff away. You move similar types of data to the same place on the drive to limit hard drive movement. This increases your overall hard drive speed by keeping seeking to a minimum. Keeping a defragged drive will prolong drive life as well. If you arr heavily downloading ahem stuff from the Internet and then deleting it chances are your drive is fragmented up - windows recommends defragging @ 3 percent. Whats that how do you check? You right click on my computer and choose manage or open your computer management mmc. Then choose disk defragmenter - highlight your drive and choose analyze.


MicroSoft then lets you know what's up. I try to defrag regularly and have it scripted on my servers. If you delete huge chunks of data its time to defrag, if your machine is sluggish its time to defrag if you got hundreds of gigz of crap on your machine and you dont know what i'm talking about - then its REALLY time to derag. This is one of things that is scanned by using Microsoft's one care... Strictly the free version guys. Never say you want to buy... It will clean your shit honest and the paid program is a resource hog and Ive seen it f up more than one machine. Hollar @ me how do you defrag - and do you defrag? We also covered scripting defragmenting here...