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Defragment computer — Some must–known tips about defragmentation
Nov 1st
It is known to all PC users that a simple defragmentation will greatly speed up a computer. But not all know when and how to defragment computer. If you are someone who wants to speed up you computer with simplest method, please do not miss this article.
Defragmentation is a process that rearranges the files on the computer, making them always close together and contiguously locate at the same directory of the hard disk. Hence, it will be much easier to access when necessary, which will reduce the movement of the hard disk and speed up the computer. So it is necessary for us to defragment the computer when in the below cases, in order to make the coming files always coherent and speed up the computer:
1) When installing some new programs or new version of the Windows update on the computer.
2) When storing large amount of files/folders on the computer.
3) When there is only 15% or less than 15% free available hard disk space.
Most of the time, to ensure a thorough and faster defragmentation, it is necessary for us to do some preparation before defragmenting the computer. Below is what recommended so much by others:
1) Run a disk cleanup before the defragmation: go to My Computer -> right click the drive to be cleaned to select Properties -> General -> press Disk Cleanup to begin the process.
2) Run a error- checking to scan and correct some hard disk errors: go to My Computer -> right click the drive to be checked to select Properties -> Tools -> click Error-checking.
3 ) Most of the time, it is recommended that you can first close all other running programs before running the disk defragmentation, especialy remember to close the anti-virus programs the provides a real-time safeguard feature from the right bottom of the desktop.
Above is what you should know when defragmenting the computer. Then you can run the windows built-in defragenter to defragment the computer, speeding it up all the time.
Notes:
1) Please do not defragment a partition which has Ghost system backup files for it will results in errors when doing a system recovery.
2) If you cannot defragment the computer smoothly in normal mode, please first boot the computer into safe mode and the defragment it.
3) It is much better to defragment the computer with a special designed defrag program because of the limitation of the windows built-in defragmenter. And I think Advanced Defrag will be a better one.
Defragment computer —Tips for faster defragmentation
Oct 28th
It is known to all PC Users that it is necessary to defragment the computer regularly so as to greatly optimize computer performance. But if you have ever defragmented your computer with disk defragmenter before, you will find that it is a so time-consuming action. In this article, you will find some tips on how to get a faster defragmentation when noticing that your computer is running slow.
1) Close all running programs. It is needed for programs to repeatedly read the data from the hard drive when running, which will affect the defragment speed. In the case of system instability, it will sometimes crash the computer. So to get a faster defragmentation, you’d better close all running programs and it is more appreciated to boot the computer into windows safe mode before the defragmentation.
2）Modify the registry to automatically shut down the screen saver. If not, the defragmenter will start up again and again. Regarding that it will be very troublesome to manually turn it off every time, you can click Start –> Run -> enter Regedit to open registry editor -> locate KEY_CURRENT_USER/Software /Microsoft/windows/CurrentVersion/Applets ->find whether this is “Defrag” key under this path (if not, go to create one) -> create a new key called “Settings” within the “Defrag” key -> create another key named “DisableScreenSaver” within “Settings” -> change the default string value to “YES”. Hence, in the following defragmentation, the system will automatically turn off the screen saver.
3) Change the location of the temporary folder. IE will generate a large number of temporary files within the directory: Temporary Internet Files (normally in C:\windows\Temporary Internet Files). Every time when we surfing the internet, the hard disk will frequently read / write these files, resulting in lots of fragments and slow down computer. To avoid this , you can design the temporary directory to another partition：A) Create a new directory in other partition to store the temporary files. B) Click Start -> Control Panel -> double click Internet Options -> click Settings within Internet Temporary Files -> click “Remove folders” to the directory you just created.
4) Keep sufficient disk space. It will slow down the programs and the defragmentation when there is only a little space left down. So it is much better to retain sufficient disk space. Normally, it will be more than 15% available for relatively smaller hard disk partition, and 5% for bigger ones, and at lease 200MB for boot partition.
After the preparations above, you can go to defragment the computer in a much faster speed. But in my opinion, it will be better to depend on a professional defrag program to thoroughly defragment computer because of the lower efficiency of the window’s built-in defragmenter.
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