The worst type of virus is the one you don’t
know is there. You’re confused and left wondering what the source of
infection is. Without knowing, you can’t treat it. Slowly but surely the
infection spreads and you’re left with a lifeless system that takes 10
minutes just to boot. Virus scans detected nothing and now the only
solution seems to be, buy a new computer. If only you knew how to restore
your crippled computer and prevent any future infections.
The answer: Defragmentation.
Every hard drive suffers from file fragmentation as a result of the flawed
operating system. As files are created, edited and deleted, parts of each
file are saved wherever free space is available creating hundreds, if not
thousands of fragments. So when it tries to access a file the computer must
search for each miniscule piece, leaving its impatient owner to watch their
computer crash and burn during crucial times of operation.
Fragmentation is a disease that infects virtually all routine computer
activity. When data is fragmented, simple tasks like searching for an
email, performing security scans, saving a document, even booting up a
workstation, can be a scrupulously slow process. And as a rule, the
greater the size and number of files, the greater a problem fragmentation
becomes.
Defragmentation (or defrag) is the immune shot. Defragging your hard drive
will breathe new live into your computer as it restores each fragmented
file to one contiguous piece, greatly improving speed response time. Tests
have shown that common activities such as word processing, web-surfing, and
anti-virus scans can take almost 15 times longer on hard drives that have
not been defragged than on those that have.
Experts recommend that end users defrag their computers on a regular basis
to optimize performance, with frequency depending on the amount of usage,
the type of work being performed, and how full the disk drive is. In
enterprise environments, analysts recommend daily automatic defragmentation
for critical systems.
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