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Speed up your computer with Boot time defragmentation

You can feel a slight improvement of your computer if you use boot time defragmentation. We are sorry about the video quality, but as you can well guess, it's not one of ours.

Defragmenting your drive to improve performance

The Disk Defragmenter is a piece of software included in Windows 7, designed to increase access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, a technique commonly known as defragmenting. The purpose is to optimize the time it takes to read and write files to/from the disk by minimizing head travel time and maximizing the transfer rate.

How to defragment a drive in Windows

Imagine you buying a computer game. Nowadays most of them come on a DVD, some they have a couple of GB of files. When the game is installed on your hard-drive, those files get written all over the place. And that's just a small example, because with the fast internet connections these days, files get downloaded, copied, moved all the time.
Being all over the place, your hard-drive gets slowed by jumping from place to place to retrieve those files. But in just minute (depending on hard-drive capacity - can take hours) you can increase your computer's overall performance.