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Defragments your disks

 

r organises the data on ur hard disk to optimese it

 

http://www.geekgirls.com/windows_defrag.htm

 

worth doin

just moves shit about really

 

Ranj

Will i not lose any of the data???????????

 

no u wont

 

in terms i understand (so pretty basic ), when anything is saved on your hard drive it is saved in no particular place, the defragmenter checks through all the files etc and takes any fragmented files and brings them together, apparently this helps with access time on the hard drive as it has less work to do

 

Cool, cheers mate

 

Defragments your disk, to state the obvious!

Sorry, couldn't resist......anyway, as you use files (which are made up of clusters of a specific size, stored on your computer), your filesystem places them into memory, and when finished, places them back on your hard-drive (but not necessarily in the same order it got them). This mis-ordering as files are used more is called fragmentation.

Defragmentation fixes this, and ensures that files are stored in clusters one after the other, which makes accessing the files quicker.

 

get disckeeper 8 dude, y'know the free one

 

you dont deserve a pc tiff with your fundamental lack of knowledge you dont see me trying to fit central heating systems now do you

 

Matt

I am not an IT bod like your goodself

 

look for a program on supranova called 'perfect disk' very good bit of software and the best defragger

mark

 

Ive tried the built in one to windows and it takes about 18years so i just give up.

Are other ones faster?

 

perfect disk is slow the first time steve,but after that its fairly quick...not tecnically minded on computers but it also defrags the boot up part and other bits that the windows one doesnt

mark

 

Stops your pc scanning over the whole hard disk to search for files, organises the hard disk to have all the files together, then free space.. open defragmenter and click analyse, the more red that shows up the worse it is!