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2. Here’s what it means to optimize your computer - AOL

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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 or ...

3. Defragmentation - Wikipedia

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   Defragmentation is advantageous and relevant to file systems on electromechanical disk drives (hard disk drives, floppy disk drives and optical disk media). The movement of the hard drive's read/write heads over different areas of the disk when accessing fragmented files is slower, compared to accessing the entire contents of a non-fragmented ...

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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   File system fragmentation is more problematic with consumer-grade hard disk drives because of the increasing disparity between sequential access speed and rotational latency (and to a lesser extent seek time) on which file systems are usually placed. [8] Thus, fragmentation is an important problem in file system research and design.

6. Why is my brand new computer so slow? Here are the 5 top ...

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   After a quick scan of your computer, the software is able to do things like free trapped RAM to increase speed, adjust hidden broadband settings, defragment your hard drive and so much more.

7. Microsoft Drive Optimizer - Wikipedia

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   Defragmenting a disk minimizes head travel, which reduces the time it takes to read files from and write files to the disk. [1] As a result of the decreased read and write times, Microsoft Drive Optimizer decreases system startup times for systems starting from magnetic storage devices such as a hard drive.