Dec
05
jkOnTheRun: Defrag your hard drive!
Posted under Productivity
One of the preventive maintenance steps I recommend frequently is to regularly defrag your hard drive. This is especially important for mobile PCs as they usually have slower hard drives that really affect performance as the hard drive fragments. The computer will run slower and slower as the fragmentation worsens until you have a big (and noticeable) problem. This sounds like obvious advice but since most people don’t leave their notebook or Tablet PC running all the time it is difficult if not impossible to automatically schedule a defragging utility to run at regular intervals. So most users are like me and it gets forgotten.
I do defrag a lot and there are some tricks to get more benefit from it. One if you have enough RAM (512MB or more), you can temporarily turn of virtual memory, reboot and defrag your computer and the “swap file”(the space on your hard drive reserved for temporary RAM storage).
Another thing you can do is the old fashioned NT4.0 defrag which involves grabbing large directories, moving them to a different hard drive and then moving them back. This is tedious, but works. jk recommends perfectdisk which I tried once a few years back..I am going to load it up again and see if it does the trick.
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Hello,
When I turn on my computer (Compaq Presarios V2000 notebook), it seems to boot up, but then a screen appears indicating that Windows did not shut down successfully… After the countdown on the bottom of this screen, it appears to be loading and then the “blue screen” appears. After about a second it loops back to the beginning of what appears a boot up again. The computer was purchased in June and this is the second time within a month this problem has happened (the hard drive had to be returned and a new hard drive was installed)Thanks, Bob Neroy