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Post by Lady Mage on Feb 26, 2007 16:30:29 GMT -5
Hiya all, Someone mentioned defragging a computer, and I was wondering: - what exactly that is
- how I go about doing that
- will it make my computer faster.
Anyone have any information they'd care to share? mage |
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Post by Meluivan Indil on Feb 26, 2007 23:49:29 GMT -5
In answer to your questions.
1. Whenever you download something to your pc, such as songs, movies whatnot your computer sticks it in the nearest open space on your hard drive but if that space is not big enough it may break the file up and put part of it in the next nearest space on your drive. This causes fragmentation and when ever say you open a movie you've downloaded using WMP it has to pull if from several places on your drive to play the whole thing. This goes for anything you might download. What defragmenting does is it moves these files around on your hard drive so they are complete and not fragmented making it easier for your various programs to access them.
2. I can explain how to do it in Windows XP but that's the only way I can tell you. You click your Start button, then All Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, then Disk Defragmenter. When it opens you want to Analyze first. It will tell you if you need to defrag or not. If it says yes you need to then you click Defragment. It can take hours to do if you have never done it before. And do not do anything else with your pc while you are defragmenting. For every internet page you look at you save lots of temporary internet files and that just adds to the fragmentation.
3. It can greatly increase your computers speed because it is making the programs on your pc not have to work as hard to access your files.
4. And for the question you did not ask, no it can not hurt your pc in anyway, and it will not delete any of your files. You will notice no difference to where they are on your pc either. It's all backend stuff that you never see for yourself.
If you are running a different version of Windows you may be able to follow these directions too. I think it was the same when I was using Windows ME. But that was a while ago and I don't remember.
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Post by LadyRiona on Feb 26, 2007 23:54:01 GMT -5
1. Defragging is when you tell your computer to find all the fragmented files on your computer and "put them back together" again, so to speak.
2. There are two ways: Start Menu>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Defragmentor, or My Computer>Right click C: driver>Properties>Tools>Defragment Now. First one is easier.
3. It does to an extent because it's finding all the files that may have Piece A1 over in Piece G7's place and vice versa, and replacing them so you have pieces A1-10 in the correct place, and so on. It's like a really nice organizer thing.
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Post by Lady Mage on Feb 27, 2007 8:20:11 GMT -5
Okay, I will do this tonight then. Thank you very much.
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Post by Ravendust on Mar 1, 2007 9:39:18 GMT -5
I should probably defrag my own computer ^_^;;[/b]
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