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2. 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.

3. System Mechanic features - AOL Help

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   Select Speed Up. Scroll down and click Program Accelerator. Select which hard drives you want to optimize. Click Analyze Now. Once System Mechanic has finished analyzing your hard drives, click Optimize now. Click Exit when the optimization is complete.

4. Hard disk drive performance characteristics - Wikipedia

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   Some SATA II and later hard disk drives support staggered spin-up, allowing the computer to spin up the drives in sequence to reduce load on the power supply when booting. [44] Most hard disk drives today support some form of power management which uses a number of specific power modes that save energy by reducing performance.

5. System Mechanic Software | 30-Day Free* Trial | AOL Products

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   System Mechanic is an easy solution for optimal PC performance and simple computing. Once downloaded, it helps speed up slow computers by removing unnecessary software and files and fixes problems ...

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. Microsoft Drive Optimizer was first officially shipped with Windows XP.

7. Interleaving (disk storage) - Wikipedia

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   In block storage devices such as hard disk drives, interleaving is a technique used to improve slow system performance by putting data accessed sequentially into non-sequential blocks, typically sectors. The number of physical sectors between consecutive logical sectors is called the interleave skip factor or skip factor. [1] [2] [3]