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Use it regularly, as part of a scheduled maintenance program. Keeping your hard-drive de-fragmented will help your computer by keeping files, programs etc ordered on the disc. A good schedule is once a week.

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What tool can you use to defragment your volumes by recopying fragmented files to contiguous space on the disk?

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reorganizing the disk Defragmentation actually reorganizes the disk.


When does a person use disk defragmentation?

A person should use disk defrag weekly to keep computer from slowing down but you only have to do it when it does slow down.


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Why does disk defragmentation increase access speed?

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What maintenance operation should be performed to prevent a slowdown in data access speed?

Disk defragmentation.


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How do you remove fragmented files?

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Can you stop disk defragmenter halfway through a session?

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