defraging whats it about?

Question

ive been told to defrag my computer i dont know anything about this all i know is that ive got 49%space left any tips.thanks

Answer 1

Files are scattered around on the disc and defragmenting means to put the files together so things work more smoothly

Answer 2

When computers save and alter files, they don't always save the whole file in one place, plus there can be spaces between the files, also, when files are deleted, they don't really get erased, the data is left, but not pointed to. Add to this the swap file, which is a portion of your harddrive the operating system uses as a sort of memory, and using a computer for any length of time leaves your harddrive in a bit of a mess.

Defragmenting is when the computer sifts through all this, stitching files together and finding lost chunks etc. A general spring-clean of the harddrive.

I will assume you have a windows PC. To defrag, find the screen that shows you what drives you have and right click on the C:\ drive, click on properties, find the tab named tools and click. There should be a defrag button. Click and leave it in peace.

Answer 3

Computers like to break your big files up and put the small bits into available spaces, especially over time. Defragging collects all the little bits back together again, which saves time travelling between them and leaves nice big spaces for new big files to fit into in future.
It is the same idea as taking some odd books out of a bookshelf over time, you then one day just shoved the remaining books back together, closing the gaps. Lots of space for more books at the end then!
Cheers, Steve.

Answer 4

Defragging isn't about available space, you'll need to remove/unistall some programs to free up more space. The defrag part comes in after removing programs, especially large ones.

Defragging basically fills in gaps, or holes, that were created by programs that were uninstalled, or files that were moved around or added. It's necessary to make the computer run smoothly, especially if you move, add, and delete programs regularly.

Answer 5

Files on you computer are stored in small chunks just like a page in a folder as time goes by these pages get splattered all over the hard disk just like page order getting out of order defragging puts the back in order.
defragging must be done regularly or the computers performance will suffer just like you would if you wanted page 100 in a folder if it wasn't where it should be
to start defragging open "My Computer" right click on the drive you want to defrag in your case it's probably C: click on properties then click on the tools tab click on "Defragment now" with windows XP click "analyse" button it'll tell you if you need to defrag if you need to defrag click on the "Defragment" button

Answer 6

when you save items on your computer it takes up space. when you delete it the space it took up is free. but on the hard drive it will look more like (XXX XXX XXXXXXXX XXX). all thoses spaces between the X's can't be used until you defragment. defragmenting takes all those X's and moves them next to each other so you can use those smaller spaces.

Answer 7

i did mine the other day, it just moves your software around so the PC runs a bit faster. its easy to do go into start, control panel, performance and maintenance, rearrange items on your hard disc, you can also clean your disc here to this will free up a lot space. (Internet browsing will all be stored here and if you`ve never done it you`ll get chunks back).

Answer 8

its nothing but arraging ur data n keepin it systematically on ur hardist so it will be easy to access the data form it it makes the system a lil fast i dont think it will increase ur space....if u r using NTFS i recommend u to compress the data which u can do it by right clicking on the hard disk n checkin the the compress data to save hardisk space including file ....

Answer 9

Spring cleaning the PC hard drive space

Answer 10

It's a way of getting back small amounts of lost space and improving the PC's speed and performance