Tag: defrag
Defragmenting: The second coming
by Rohit on Apr.20, 2009, under Computer Repair
When you run Defraggler, it can’t move files that are in use, mainly your page file and your registry. Page file is used when your computer runs out of memory. It is reserved space on the hard drive for “slow” memory. In comparison, your memory is much much faster to read and write to than your page file is. One thing that helps the page file be as fast as it can is to keep it sequential. The same goes for the registry. Read more after the jump
Defragmenting
by Rohit on Apr.19, 2009, under Computer Repair
Defragmenting. What exactly is it? Well whenever you download a new file, move files around, or make a copies with your files, they will not get written sequentially. They will be fragmented into pieces and written to the disk wherever there is room. After a while, this makes looking for files slower because it has to search through the entire hard drive for the pieces of the file. Defragging the hard drive will try to put all the files into a sequential order and make read speeds up to 20% faster! More after the jump.
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