Week 6 Posting - Defrag

 Disk defragmentation is a wonderful thing for users to understand how it works and when it is important to use. If you have a brand-new computer out of the box and just turned it on, you will not need to run the disk defrag computer application. If you have a computer that is older and has had a lot of use with file deletion or application deletion and you notice the computer is going slow, you may want to run disk defrag in order to get the computer up and running back to normal speeds.

The reason the computer gets so slow is because the hard drive is attempting to locate the data that has become spread throughout the entire drive. When its new, its all in a neat orderly structure that makes retrieving data easy. When it has been used over and over the data structure begins to fail and the data is spread out through the entire hard drive.