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2. Disk Cleanup - Wikipedia

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   This option provides a systematic compression scheme. Infrequently accessed files are compressed to free up disk space while leaving the frequently used files uncompressed for faster read/write access times. If after file compression, a user wishes to access a compressed file, the access times may be increased and vary from system to system.

3. What does "free up disk space" mean — and how do you fix it?

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   Use the Disk Cleanup function on Windows. Windows has a built-in feature that helps you free up disk space; it’s called Disk Cleanup. Just click the Start button and then search for it by name.

4. Abort, Retry, Fail? - Wikipedia

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   This may be supported by the drivers for some removable media when a file is opened with a full volume name or the disk is removed while the file is open. However, for mundane actions similar to what triggered the prompt in DOS, such as attempting to read "E:" when there is no disk in the CD drive, Windows produces an immediate "Fail".

5. Defragmentation - Wikipedia

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   An otherwise blank disk has five files, A through E, each using 10 blocks of space (for this section, a block is an allocation unit of the filesystem; the block size is set when the disk is formatted and can be any size supported by the filesystem). On a blank disk, all of these files would be allocated one after the other (see example 1 in the ...

6. Microsoft Drive Optimizer - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft Drive Optimizer (formerly Disk Defragmenter) is a utility in Microsoft Windows designed to increase data access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, a technique called defragmentation.

7. CHKDSK - Wikipedia

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   [10] On Windows NT operating systems, CHKDSK can also check the disk surface for bad sectors and mark them (in MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 9x, this is a task done by Microsoft ScanDisk). The Windows Server version of CHKDSK is RAID-aware and can fully recover data in bad sectors of a disk in a RAID-1 or RAID-5 array if other disks in the set are ...

8. Troubleshooting AOL Desktop Gold

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   • Double click on the AOL Desktop application file. • From the Desktop Gold toolbar help menu, select Create new desktop shortcut. • If the issue still exists, proceed to the next step. Uninstall/Reinstall Desktop Gold • In Windows settings, go to Add/Remove programs. • Select AOL Desktop Gold.

9. System File Checker - Wikipedia

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   In Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 10, System File Checker is integrated with Windows Resource Protection (WRP), which protects registry keys and folders as well as critical system files. Under Windows Vista, sfc.exe can be used to check specific folder paths, including the Windows folder and the boot folder. Windows File Protection (WFP ...