hid Posted February 14, 2007 CID Share Posted February 14, 2007 hey all i'm very unsure on this disk defrag thingy and want to know should i carry out a defragment - and what will this do (In simply noobie explanation please). Also how often should i carry this out. Thanks p.s. is there anyother system analysis and cleaning i should carry out that helps to keep computer in order, smooth and clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granpa Posted February 14, 2007 CID Share Posted February 14, 2007 This is user preference and everyone has their own solution. I use sat internet and it seems best I keep up daily on the Spyware-Maleware and when I defrag (at least once a week) I run the scans, get rid of internet clutter and use a Reg checker, then I defrag. It seems to put a little snappiness into my PC when I'm done. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 14, 2007 CID Share Posted February 14, 2007 Basically what disk defragment does is a cleaning of a book shelf.. You bookshelf, or hard drive, stores tons of books or files. After long periods of user interaction such as installing, uninstalling and manipulation the files are no longer in the best order. So what a defragment does it try and re-establish the best order of your bookshelf to improve system performance. By doing this there is less stress on the hard drive because the file are in a logical order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted February 14, 2007 CID Share Posted February 14, 2007 not only is there a little less stress but you may see an actual increase in speed. when you delete a file from the drive, that space is marked as free. the next file that is written will start at the first available free spot. if it is too big for this spot it will overflow to the next one and so on. this can cause large files to be split into a number of fragments spread all over the drive. defragmenting, as the name says, reorganizes the files on the drive so that all these fragments are reassembled into one coherent piece. from ADCBDCBACADBCBAD to AAAACCCCBBBBDDDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 14, 2007 CID Share Posted February 14, 2007 better example that then book.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hid Posted February 14, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 14, 2007 thanks very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stagman Posted February 20, 2007 CID Share Posted February 20, 2007 i have downloded O AND O defrag some say it works beter, anyone know beter plz let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeffwalker9999 Posted February 20, 2007 CID Share Posted February 20, 2007 O&O is very good Diskeeper is very good see http://files.diskeeper.com/pdf/ImpactofDiskFragmentation.pdf full details on defrag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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