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  2. Defragmentation - Wikipedia

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    Updates are a common cause of this, because in order to update a file, most updaters usually delete the old file first, and then write a new, updated one in its place. However, most filesystems do not write the new file in the same physical place on the disk. This allows unrelated files to fill in the empty spaces left behind.

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    Defragment your hard drive. Also known as defragging, defragmenting your hard drive is a process that can clear up memory and help optimize your computer's performance. ... When you delete a file ...

  4. Why is my computer so slow? - AOL

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    Defragment Hard Drive (if applicable): If you're using a traditional hard drive (HDD), defragmenting it can help improve file access times and overall system performance.

  5. File system fragmentation - Wikipedia

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    Fragmentation can be remedied by re-organizing files and free space back into contiguous areas, a process called defragmentation. Solid-state drives do not physically seek, so their non-sequential data access is hundreds of times faster than moving drives, making fragmentation less of an issue. It is recommended to not manually defragment solid ...

  6. Microsoft Drive Optimizer - Wikipedia

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    Windows 7 reintroduces the analyze function and showing percent complete of the defragmentation, both of which were removed in Windows Vista. It can also defragment multiple volumes simultaneously. According to Scott Hanselman of Microsoft, Windows 7 [verification needed] and later do defragment a solid-state disk (SSD) but in a completely ...

  7. PageDefrag - Wikipedia

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    If the page file is fragmented, PageDefrag can take as long or longer than Windows Defrag. However, a defragmentation of the page file can improve performance much more than defragmentation of the Registry will. PageDefrag does not defragment the contents of the registry files, only the placement of these files on the hard drive.

  8. Trim (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The original version of the TRIM command has been defined as a non-queued command by the T13 subcommittee, and consequently can incur massive execution penalty if used carelessly, e.g., if sent after each filesystem delete command. The non-queued nature of the command requires the driver to first wait for all outstanding commands to be finished ...

  9. Defraggler - Wikipedia

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    Defraggler is a freemium defragmentation utility developed by Piriform Software, which can defragment individual files or groups of files on computer memory systems. Defraggler runs on Microsoft Windows; it has support for all versions since Windows XP. It includes support for both IA-32 and x64 versions of these operating systems.

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