After having windows running on a PC for any length of time it is possible that file fragmentation can slow down your computer as it tries to access the Hard drive.
The reason this is so important in Windows is because the slowest part of your computer is the Hard Drive. When your hard drive has to find a file it may have to search one location to find only part of the file and then it has to search for the next part of the file. After searching multiple locations, we've had a lot of disk accesses for one file. This takes time a lot of time.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could take those file fragments and put them in one long file? This is the function of the disk defragmenter in windows. It scans the hard drive and places the file fragments from each file in one continuous file. So when I open a file, the hard drive gets searched once and not multiple times like before defragging.
Please select the correct operating system below to learn how to defrag your hard drive.
If you are unsure of what version of windows you might have please read my blog entry: What version of Windows am I using?
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