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How does defrag work?

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When you defragment your computer, it places all kinds of clustered files into a more organized form, taking less time to find them. Be careful not to defrag more than once every couple months, since that will destroy your hard drive if you over defrag.

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Use defrag in a sentence?

Many people believe that your computer will work more efficiently if you defrag it regularly.


Disk defrag doesn't work in vista?

That is a statement not a question tard and it does work.


How to defrag System Reserved?

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What command to defrag the drive from a command prompt window?

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How do you defrag with Windows xp?

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How do you run defrag with vista?

As far as I am aware, in Vista, you can't select specific drives to defrag. It's all or nothing. Do note that Vista uses a type of automatic defrag. That said, the automatic defrag in Vista is not as good as some of the third party solutions. The commercial defragmenters offer more control and features than the Vista defragger. Generally, automatic defrag is better than older manual or scheduled defragging since defragging takes place in the background without user intervention. Files are maintained in an optimal condition while the user can continue to work on the PC as usual.


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Can you defrag a Mac SSD?

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How do you get rid of the fragmented files that stay after you run disk defrag?

A defrag program sometimes skips the files that contain like 2-4 fragments so it won't need to make space for that file because it's to large. Some programs have the option to defrag to defrag every file without skipping one.