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Protect Hard Disk—How to Solve Bad Tracks Problems
Dec 1st
Hard disk should be the most subtle components in the computer. As modern technology is advancing rapidly, hard disk capacity has been increased greatly. But its brittle shortcoming is not still improved radically. For computer users, it is the last thing for them to find hard disk broken, since it restores precious data and information.
As hard disk problems are divided mainly into two aspects—logical and physical bad tracks. If it is logical problem, you can reinstall software under the worst circumstance. And for physical one, you can still handle it on condition that the problems are not so serious.
First of all, let us see what will happen if there is physical damage in the hard disk.
When reading certain file or running programs, it is easy to go awry or takes long time to operate successfully. Even when reading, hard disk is creaking hoarsely. If this happens, you have to aware that certain sectors with data have been broken already.
When booting computer, system can not be lead by hard disk. After starting floppy disk, it can switch to hard disk drive letter but cannot enter into it. Even by using SYS order, it still fails. All of these are probably caused by the problem in hard disk sectors. It is more serious than the previous one. Besides, computer is always troubled with blue screen without any specific reason even though you use it correctly.
According to the situation mentioned above, there are some ways to remedy. Here are some methods to repair hard disk bad tracks. You should take these measures orderly.
First of all, it is wise for you from the easiest way. In Windows98 system, you can right-click drive letter and choose “Properties”. In the “Tool” tab, you can choose to scan the disk thoroughly and automatically restore the probable broken cluster.
To be frankly, the first methods can not work very well every time, because Windows98 just repair the logical bad tracks but not physical ones. Therefore, you should consider perform “Cold Treatment” to these bad tracks. So-called “Cold Treatment” is to mark those tracks and do not use them any more. You should remember their positions and perform high-level formatting. By doing these, those tracks can be arranged in certain area and computer may not restore any file there. Do not decide such area too small in order to save hard disk space. Because bad tracks can extend to other good ones, it is wise for you to leave proper space for those broken tracks in case of new bad tracks happen. Or you can use certain specific software to help you.
In the last resort, you can do low-level formatting to hard disk. This should be the last measure to take because it can harm disks in two aspects at least: one is to abrade disk; another is to accelerate the extension of bad tracks.
Last but not least, if there is any bad track, you should review whether you defragment disk too frequently or there is too low memory so that the applications have to visit disks hourly.
All of the methods mentioned above can solve hard disk physical bad tracks problems correctly but passively, because it expenses the disk capacity. So, the best way is to operate hard disk cautiously.
Hard Disk—How to Solve Certain Hard Disk Problems
Dec 1st
Hard disk is an important part of computer, but its stability and usage time can not as well as other fixings in the computer. That is to say, you should pay more attention to protect your hard disk so as to improve computer performance. This is what I want to tell you in this article.
The one of problems is that if there is any error in the hard disk, it can hinder the applications to write temporary files into it. In order to solve it, you should make sure that there are not excessive temporary files, so it is better for you to remove them at first. By doing this, you can know that the problem is caused by too many files or disk errors.
First of all, I would like to tell how and where to clear up temporary files. Sometimes, redundant temporary files can be in the way of writing to hard disk.
Temporary folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files and C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\
History temporary folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\recent\
Internet temporary folders: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
In the menu of browser, you can click “Tools”—“Internet Options”. In the “Temporary Internet files” tab, click “Settings”—“View Files”. And then you can open this cache folder.
Or you can click “Start”—“Run” and type “Chkdsk” and press “Enter” or click “OK” so that the computer can start to check disk. In this way, you can add “D:” or “E:” to check them. Besides, you can also add the parameter of “blank/F” to restore errors automatically when detecting errors. For example, click “Start”—“Run” and type “Chkdsk D: /F”. You should be careful that there is a blank ahead of “F”.
Certain software like playing ones can produce temporary folders automatically when running. Such folders end with “temp” or “tmp”. You can find them by searching local disks and remove them manually.
Another problem is computer always reminds that “disk boot error” and you have to restart computer many times before entering into system. Why?
If you have encountered this problem, it is no doubt that there is logical or physical bad track in the hard disk. In the first place, you can enter into system and open the disk defragmenting program of Windows by clicking “Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”. Choose to scan thoroughly and tick “Automatically fix errors” and then perform scanning program to see whether you can get rid of this trouble. If not, you had better back up the important files and data to other storage and try other restoring software to put those bad tracks into certain partition and hide them. The last method is to do low-level format. Although it softens or shield problems, low-level formatting can harm your disk without question. That is to say, you ought to make your mind cautiously before doing that.
All in all, since a lot of cause can lead to hard disk problems
. The best method to prevent them is to protect hard disk in advance.
Computer crash randomly — How to avoid computer crashes
Nov 30th
For all PC users, it is annoyed to see that the computer crash randomly. So how to avoid computer crashes has been one main problem for them.
First, it is necessary to know that all computers will crash and no operating system can be escaped, no matter it has been used for a very long time or brandy new. But it is not easy to point out all causes for it involves to kinds of computer usage like some issues related to the hardware, software. But you can effort from some sides to avoid computer crashes.
1. Diligently patch the system
As we all know problems will occur if there are some system bugs such as some hackers will break into your system to spy out data and violate your privacy. So a system patch will help you timely correct some bugs and always protect your PC, avoiding computer crashes.
2. Duly update anti-virus program
If a computer is infected by a virus, lots of resources will be taken up when starting up the computer and slow it down. What is more, the virus will seriously steal users’ privacy, change PC settings, and even give outside parties control over the computer, which will seriously result in computer crashes. So it is recommended that you can install an anti-virus program and firewall to protect your computer from crashing time to time. But that is not enough. It is needed for you to update it duly in order to always ensure the latest virus database.
3. Carefully install programs on the computer
Before installing a program on your computer, first check whether it is safe / necessary or not. When finding that a program is not needed any more, you have to uninstall it from your computer in time to release more available free space, preventing computer crashes. You can go to Start, All Programs and then Add / Remove Programs within Control Panel to thoroughly uninstall the unneeded programs.
4. Timely defragment the computer
From a fact study, we know that lots of computer users have never run a disk defragmentation during the lifetime of the computer, thinking that it has nothing to do with the PC performance. But in fact, a simple disk defragment plays very important role in speeding up the computer for it will reassemble all parts of a same content and then make them stay close together. Hence, it will reduce the movement of the hard disk head and speed up the disk visiting time. So a periodical defragmentation is needed in order to prevent computer crashes because of the large amount of disk fragments.
5. Remember not to visit pornography sites
Currently, pornography sites have been the media of pushing scams and virus transmission, which brings sever potential risk to users’network security. So please do not visit these kinds of sites in order to protect / maintain your PC performance.
As you can see that above is what you can do in daily life to avoid computer crashes and protect your computer. But here, I just want to emphasize again the important role of a simple disk defragmentation. It will help you effectively manage the files on your computer and then speed it up.
If you have never run a disk defragmentation before, it is highly recommended that you can run one right now to avoid computer crashes and speed it up.
Causes for computer crashes — simple ways for you to optimize your computer
Nov 30th
When using the computer, I believe it won’t be a pleasant experience to see that it freezes or crashes frequently. So it is necessary for you as a user to master some knowledge on what causes the computer crashes and how to them to optimize your computer.
There are many causes to why the computer crash suddenly while you are in the midst of doing something and each has its own solution. But normally, below are the most common causes for computer crashes.
Cause one: Hardware conflict
If a crash is caused by hardware conflict, it is very easy to solve it by replacing the necessary components. But please bear in mind that the new items must be compatible with the existing hardware. Only in this way, will your computer run properly.
Cause two: Spyware or Adware running on the computer
As we all know that when there are malicious spyware and adware running on your computer, lots of valuable resources will be used up, which will cause your computer to run slowly and eventually crash. So to optimize your computer, it is vital to install correct anti-spyware software on your computer to block the potential danger presented to network security.
Cause three: Infected by viruses
Similarly to Spyware or Adware, if the computer is infected by viruses, a large amount of system resources will be taken and then slow down the computer. Seriously, it will eventually crash the computer. So please regularly scan your computer for viruses to always optimize your computer.
Cause four: Too many programs running at the same time
When a program is running, it will take some certain amount of system resources and memory. If too many programs run at once (including those running at the background), a crash will occur because of limited memory. So please close down other running programs as possible as you can but the one that you need currently, which will free up memory to ensure a smooth running of the program you do need.
Cause five: Registry problems
For users who have some knowledge about computers, they may know that windows registry is the main soul of the computer, which determines the proper running of the entire machine. If there is something wrong, the computer will become a cold and useless machine only. When surfing the internet or uninstalling programs, there may be some registry entries left on the computer, overloading it or messing it up. Seriously, it will suddenly crash the computer. So it is necessary to have an impact registry. You can fix this by cleaning it with some free registry cleaners.
Cause six: No disk defragmentation for a long-term usage
As we all know that the fragments on the hard disk make it impossible fast access to what we want. The more fragments on the hard disk, the more time it will cost when trying to input / output files, which will greatly slow down or crash the computer. So a disk defragmentation is needed in order to rearrange the files on the computer, making all part of a same file coherently stay at the same place.
Besides the above causes, there are some other aspects which will result in computer crashes like not enough memory, a system bug. When considering that my computer is running slow, I went to take a disk defragmentation and found that it solved the problem instantly.
Frustrated with your slow computer? It is recommended to run a disk defragmentation right now to optimize your computer. Believe me, it will speed up your computer easily like what it did to my computer.
Maintain computer performance — Methods to protect your compute against potential danger within SHS files
Nov 26th
When using the computer, please note that there is such kind of file: .SHS file, which maybe come to you in sheep’s clothing (normally by emails) and then destroy your computer. So to maintain peak computer performance, it is necessary to keep your eyes when receiving known resources.
Firstly, it is necessary for us to know something about the .SHS file. The SHS file type is primarily associated with ‘Shell Scrap Object File’ by Microsoft Corporation, which is part of the Microsoft embed objects inside objects philosophy. Basically, it happens when we drag and drop selected contents like document text, drawing objects, and graphics to the Windows desktop, a file with the extension .SHS will be generated on the desktop. But it is very dangerous according to the two reasons below:
1) In windows, its default icon is exactly similar with Notepad’s.
2) Normally, the file extension: .SHS is hidden, even though you have selected to show all types of file extensions within My Computer-> Tools -> Folder Options -> View.
Here, we take a test to see why we say it is horrid:
1) Please go to create a Notepad Document Scrap on your desktop, and then open Notepad, click Insert -> Object -> tick “Create from files” and then insert the one you have just created -> click OK.
2) Click “Edit” and then Package Object -> Edit Object -> click “Edit” within the popping-up window -> select “Common line” -> type “Format.com a: /autotest” as what you can see in the below screenshot -> Click “OK”.
3) Then drag and drop the newly-updated files on the Windows desktop and rename it to “I love you.txt.shs” or something else.
4) If this kind of file was sent out and received by some PC users, they won’t hesitate to open it for.txt file is so normal file types without considering that it has anything executable in it along with a vast collection of dangerous script code in the wrapper. When opening it, there will be a DOS windows appearing whether to run the file. If click Yes, it may bring disasters to your computer.
So when receiving some unknown files, you should be caution on whether to open it or not in order to maintain computer performance. But to maintain computer speed, it is necessary for you to learn some knowledge on how to protect your computer against the potential danger within SHS files. For further information, please be patient to read through this article.
To prevent such kind of danger, you can effort from the side below:
1) Go to Start -> Run and then Registry Editor -> Locate “HEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShellScrap”, and then delete the entry “NeverShowExt”, which was the culprit of why you can not see the extension .SHS. Hence, when receiving a .SHS file, you can see the .SHS extension.
2) Chang the default icon of “Scrap objects”. Since the default icon of scrap file is the same as Notepad, which will sometimes confuses the PC users. So you can change it to the one as you like so as to easily recognize. You can go to My Computer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types -> Locate “SHS” within the “Registered File Types” -> Advanced -> click “Change Icon” and then open “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Pifmgr.dll” to select the icon as you like. Hence, the SHS file will be shown in the icon you selected, different from other files.
3) Also, you can add “.SHS” files as the one that needs to be scanned by your anti-virus programs. Hence, it will automatically warm you when receiving such kind of files.
With the discussion above, you will know how to effectively maintain computer performance by preventing the potential danger of some SHS files.
But if want to always enjoy peak performance, it is recommended that you can not belittle the powerful function of a simple disk defragmentation for it will help you easily rearrange the contents locating on the hard disk, returning you a faster computer. If you have never run one before, please go to take one right now.
Want to optimize PC performance? Some knowledge about Windows SHS files
Nov 25th
As we all know that we can optimize PC performance in many ways, but have you ever hear about a SHS file? Do you know what it is? And how does it affect the PC performance? If not, please do not miss this article.
First of all, it is necessary for us to know what SHS file is. When using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, it is possible for us to drag and drop selected items like document text, drawing objects, and graphics to the Windows desktop. At this time, there will be a desktop icon creating for the scrap file, along with a file located on the Windows\Desktop with a .shs extension. Hence, we can say that this file is a native program document which contains the information that was selected and dragged.
With a SHS file, we can simply drag it to other documents which meet the shortage of the Windows Clipboard, only retaining the latest copied content.
From the discussion above, it seems that the SHS file will bring us more convenience. But please note that the scrap file is a special OLE object and it is impossible for us to see the shs extension in Windows operating system (except in Dos and Linux). So lots of anti-virus experts warm us to keep strong vigilance when receiving some emails with hidden extensions like shs for they may contain some malicious codes which can destroy all of your data, for example, a virus attachment named with FAMILY_PHOTO.JPG.SHS, when coming to the receiver, what he/she see maybe only FAMILY_PHOTO.JPG. Most of the time, they may select to open the attachment without consideration for .JPG is a very normal file extension, never expecting that it may contain something that will destroy the computer. So please remember not to open some files that come from unknown resources.
So how to prevent the danger that comes from SHS files? Here it what you should go: go to Start -> Run -> type Regedit to open Registry Editor -> locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.shs and then delete the default “ShellScrap” value. Hence, when running a shs file, it will pop up a window asking you to select the program to open the files.
With the method above, you can protect your computer data against some unknown malwares or viruses and then optimize PC performance. But to more effectively optimize PC performance, it is necessary for us to regularly run a disk defragmenter with the below reasons.
When using the computer, no matter what it is used for, there will be the entries to the hard disk. If the hard disk is fragmented because of the disk fragments, it will overload the movement of the hard disk head, slowing sown the computer and then shortening its lifespan.
So to optimize PC performance, it is necessary for us to take some very simple measures like disk defragmentation to always keep everything in the hard disk storing in order coherently. Hence, it will essentially speed up the computer and optimize PC performance.
How to speed up Windows XP? Simplest things you can do to speed up Windows XP instantly
Nov 24th
As we all know that nowadays computers are needed in various walks of life. As the mainstream Operating System, Windows XP operating system is used by lots of PC users. When noticing that the computer is running slower than before, some will wonder: “How to speed up Windows XP?”
This is because a slower computer is extremerely annoying, which will stop us from faster reading emails, browsing websites, searching necessary data and so on. This will greatly reduce the working efficiency and then the passion to work with computers.
Therefore, if you are among those whose want to greatly speed up your XP computer, it is very necessary for you to master some certain tips to ensure a smooth and peak PC performance, making the computer always run at top speed. Here are some very easy tips that you can do:
1) Periodically defragment the hard disk. If you are someone who has ever searched the Internet for “How to speed up Windows XP”, you would get advice to defragment your hard disk regularly for the disk fragments will make it time-consuming to get access the data stored on the computer. If no disk defragmentation for a long-term usage, the hard disk will become more and more fragmented with files storing in spread out manner, resulting in slower access of files and a slower computer speed. With a disk defragmentation, you can ensure that data and files get stored neatly and coherently, thus speeding up Windows XP. If you are unhappy with the lower-efficiency of the built-in Disk Defragmenter, you can download some best defrag programs like Advanced Defrag on the net to ensure a faster defragment process.
2) Regularly clean the PC registry. If you have often browsed the websites, you can find that there are some unwanted entries embed into the Windows Registry, which will result in computer slowdowns, freeze-ups, crashes and so on. So it is necessary for you to regularly clean the Windows registry to remove some invalid and unneeded empty registry entries. This can help you get an answer to the question: “How to speed up Windows XP”.
3) Often remove some unwanted services from the computer. When starting up the computer, some unwanted programs will automatically run at windows startup, which will slow down the computer and the data-accessing process. So to always speed up your Windows XP computer, it is necessary to look at your C drive / Service and then uninstall / disable some unwanted programs. And also, a regularly disk cleanup is needed in order to speed up Windows XP.
The three methods above are pretty easy and anyone who can use computers can handle them easily. So please do not belittle them in speeding up Windows XP, especially the one that always be neglected by lots of PC users: run a disk defragmentation at a regular basic.
Tried of slower PC performance? Do you want to speed up Windows XP in a faster and easy way? It is recommended that you can analyze and then defragment the hard disk and Windows registry with the best defrag program. After that, you will find you can simply speed up Windows XP within a few minutes.
Defragment Windows Vista clearly— Simplest way for you to speed up Vista in minutes
Nov 20th
For all Vista users, how to simply speed up Vista will probably be the first thing consideration when it comes to PCs. No matter when you searching the Internet, you will get many solutions which you can do to speed up your Windows Vista, please do not forget to regularly defragment it to speed it up in minutes.
The more fragments on the hard disk, the more time it will cost to input and output files when necessary for it requires the hard disk space to move too much to reassemble all units of the files to stay together. Hence, it will greatly slow down the computer and then shorten the lifespan of the hard disk. So to speed up your windows Vista and also maintain the hard disk, a disk defragmentation is necessary.
When talking about disk defragmentation, some will ask how often I should defragment my computer. Normally it is based on the frequency that you delete or remove files from the computer. But it is recommended that your can regularly defragment the system C drive. Considering that there is no analysis report provided by Windows Vista built-in defragmenter utility, a simplest way on how to clearly defragment Windows Vista will be shown here:
1) Go to Start Menu, All Programs and then Accessories.
2) Right click “Command Prompts” to select “Run as administrator”.
3) Type the command as follow: defrag (drive letter): –a, for example, defrag c: -a, and then press Enter.
Then a generated report will appear showing the volume size, Free space, Largest free space extent, and Present file fragmentation and suggestion on whether to defragment the volume or not. But please be patient for it will take some time to generate the report which is based on the size / fragmentation of the hard disk you select.
Then you can go to Start- > All programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter to directly defragment the volume that needs to be defragmented. Hence, it will speed up your Vista computer soon. But if you have ever defragmented your Windows Vista computer, you will find that it does not provide you any progress bar, what you get is “Defragmenting now” without knowing how many the used or remaining time is. It is acceptable when the hard disk is smaller capacity, but it will be annoyed or terrible to just sit there, waiting without doing anything.
So to own our experience, in order to more effectively speed up your Vista computer, I suggest that you should defragment it with a professional defrag program for they always applies with very advanced defragment algorithm, which ensures a complete and fast analysis of the fragments on the hard disk, and then quickly store them at the hard disk close and contiguously within only a few minutes. It my opinion, that is why so many PC users give away the lower-efficient windows built-in defragment utility when defragmenting their computer.
Of all the defrag programs I have used, I find that the one named Advanced Defrag will be very suitable to meet the shortage of Windows built-in Disk Defragment. It will quickly analyze and then reassemble the fragments found on the hard disk. What is more, it will provide you very detailed web-report, making the defragment process clear to all PC users.
As you can see that to speed up Vista, you can clearly defragment it with some very useful skills. If you have never run a disk defragmentation for Windows Vista computer, try it right now. You will find it valuable to speed up computer.
Slow Windows 7? How to speed up Windows 7 easily and instantly
Nov 18th
Windows 7, which was said to be the faster operating system by Microsoft, will gradually slow down if being used for some time. If you are using this brand-new operating system, it is necessary to learn how to speed up slow windows 7 to enjoy every day with the computer.
When trying to install this operating system, please see whether your computer meet the below requirements:
1) 1 GHz (gigahertz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
2)1 GB (gigabyte) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
3)16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
4) DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
If your computer configuration meets the above requirements, you can install the Windows 7 operating system without any problem. But when noticing the computer is running slow, you can effort from the aspects below to speed up windows 7.
1) Check your computer to see whether there are many unwanted programs installing on the computer, which will only waste the hard disk space and take up computer memory. If so, please go to Start, All Programs and then Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs to uninstall the unneeded programs,
2) See whether there are too many unnecessary programs that run automatically when starting up Windows 7, which will result in s slow computer. You can go to Start, and then Run, type “msconfig” and press Enter to get into computer Service. Here, please carefully look at the startup list and then uncheck the programs that do not need to run at Windows 7 startup.
3) Clean up the windows registry periodically. It will be very easy for you to download some free registry cleaners for Windows 7 from the Internet, keeping the registry impact forever.
4) Regularly defragment the hard disk. Even though Windows 7 is said to be smarter and more efficient, there still disk fragments occur when involving to the allocation of files to free space on a magnetic disk. The more fragments on the hard disk, the more time it will cost when inputting/ outputting the files, significantly slow down the computer. So to effectively speed up Windows 7, a periodical disk defragmentation is necessary.
To defragment Windows 7, it will be very easily to go through Start => All Programs => Accessories => System Tool to select Disk Defragmenter. Here, you can select the volume to be defragmented and the click “Analyze” and then “Defragment” to begin the disk defragmentation. You can select to defragment the volume one by one, and select all simultaneously. But in my opinion, to much faster defragment your Windows 7, it is better to depend on a professional defrag utility like Advanced Defrag rather than use the built-in defragmenter for it consumes too much time in finishing the defragment process.
When experiencing a slow Windows 7, I tried to run a disk defragmentation because of the advice of a computer repairer, but gave up halfway for the slower efficiency of the built-in defragmenter. Finally, I managed to carry out a thorough defragmentation quickly with the assistance of this powerful defrag program, which helps not only defragment the hard disks, but also the windows registry. Now I have passed the 7-day free trial period and registered a full version of Advanced Defrag in order to real-time defragment my Windows 7. So if you are annoyed to spend hours on defragmenting your computer, try this one. It will help you get the job finished in a few minutes.
As you can see that there are many aspects that you can do to speed up Windows 7, but please do not belittle the powerful function of a simple disk defragmentation when trying to speed up your slow Windows 7.
Defragment Windows XP —How to ensure a thorough defragmentation for Windows XP
Nov 17th
In Windows XP computer, the existence of Hiberfil.sys file makes it impossible to thoroughly run a disk defragmentation. Here, we will emphasize on how to remove it to ensure a thorough defragmentation for Windows XP.
Lots of XP users prefer to use the hibernation function for it will save the time to turn off the computer. But please note that there will be a file named hiberfil.sys generating when the computer goes into hibernation mode. Normally, hibernation takes everything in memory and writes it to your hard drive as the hiberfil.sys file, that is, the hiberfil.sys will be about 512MB if you have 512MB of memory and around 1GB if you have 1GB. When the computer is restored to normal mode, Windows XP will not automatically erase this file but leave it on the hard disk intact, taking up large amount of disk space. If you have ever carefully looked through the defragment analysis report when defragmenting your XP computer, you will find that there are some files that cannot be defragmented, and one of them is hiberfil.sys file, which becomes a stumbling block of a thorough defragmentation but not only a waste of hard disk space . So it is time to delete it from your computer without consideration in order to ensure a thorough XP defragmentation and free up more available free space.
Normally, this file is located hidden under C:\, and we can manually delete it from the computer. But it is recommended that you can use the below method to automatically delete it: go to Start, and then Control Panel and run Power Options, click on Hibernate tab and uncheck “Enable hibernation”, click Ok to save the settings. Then, the generated Hiberfil.sys file will be automatically removed from your computer and you will get back your hard disk space.
After the removal of this file, you can go to defragment you computer. Believe me, it will help you much faster defragment your XP computer. But this is not enough to ensure a thorough and faster defragmentation. If you want more detailed information , please be patient to read through this article.
When defragmenting windows XP, there are many things that we can do to ensure a complete and fast defragment process, Here are some what you can accomplish:
1) Run a Disk Cleanup before the defragment process: open My Computer -> right click the drive to be cleaned up -> Priorities -> press Disk Cleanup within the General tab to begin the process.
2) Run an error-checking before the defragmentation: open My Computer -> right click the drive to select Priorities ->Tools -> Error-checking.
3) Turn off other running programs (or boot the computer into safe mode) before the defragmentation to prevent some unassociated interference.
With the steps above, it will be much faster to defragment your Windows XP computer, but if your hard disk is as large as 300 GB, it seems to be a little difficult (or terrible) to defragment it with windows built-in defragment utility for it will take a very long time to finish the whole defragment process. For me, I prefer to defragment my XP computer with a professional defrag program like Advanced Defrag to ensure a thorough defragmentation effectively.
In conclusion, a removal of the Hiberfil.sys file before the disk defragmentation is necessary to ensure a thorough defragmentation for Windows XP. But in order to save both your time and energy, it is wise to defragment it with a special designed defrag utility, Maybe you can click here to find something valuable.