Does Defragmenting really boosts up the computers performance?
By Raju_India
@Raju_India (69)
India
January 13, 2007 5:53pm CST
I never used the Disk Defragmentation option in my computer. Few days ago, I read in an article, doing so will enhance my computers processing speed. I did it then, but not having any feeling that my computer's working pretty fast than the other days. It seems like every other day. Do any one here defrag your computer and have a feeling that it works well?
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@nihalnihal (660)
• India
14 Jan 07
Yes I do defragment my hard drive quite often. But it's ofter more necessary when you do a lot installation and uninstallation in your computer. I would say that the default defragmenter of windows is not very efficient one because it take lots of time. You should try something called OOdefrag. It's a very good software and it take very less time compared to windows defrag.
Defragmentation is a process of rearranging the files in your computer's hard disk for example, according to the frequency they are accessed. Defrag tends to keep almost all the system files in the outter ring of your HDD because of the fact that, the velocity is higher than the inner.
Other rearrangments of files also takes place just to speed up the computer...
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@wildguy2 (1349)
• Canada
14 Jan 07
Another program you may be interested in trying is Crap Cleaner, this program cleans all the temp files and cookies from your system that is not needed anymore thus freeing up space and speed, it also deletes old registry keys that are no longer in use or that are corrupt, very good program to help speed up a system.
@flikkenni (537)
• Indonesia
14 Jan 07
Yes, Defragmenting will boost your computer speed. Defragmentation is needed in your computer, because everytime the data written in the hard drive, every byte position is not the same. Maybe it can be random. SO you will have your data fragmented. It will take more time for your computer to read the data because of the position is not correct. So to make your computer read the data more quickly, you should have your computer defragmented.
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@wildguy2 (1349)
• Canada
14 Jan 07
So defragmenting only makes your system faster if you are reading data....most people believe it makes the system faster overall and the truth is it does not. Defragmenting your HD will make regular windows programs load a little quicker but it will not increase overall performance on programs that are system suckers, the ones that use every ounce of computer memory to run. There is a fine line between faster computers and faster programs...depends on what the user is after in speed increase, for general data processing, music or movies then defragmenting helps, for game play or data downloads or burning software defragmenting does not help and memory increase is usually needed, or programs running in the background tasks that are not needed should be turned off.
@wildguy2 (1349)
• Canada
14 Jan 07
So defragmenting only makes your system faster if you are reading data....most people believe it makes the system faster overall and the truth is it does not. Defragmenting your HD will make regular windows programs load a little quicker but it will not increase overall performance on programs that are system suckers, the ones that use every ounce of computer memory to run. There is a fine line between faster computers and faster programs...depends on what the user is after in speed increase, for general data processing, music or movies then defragmenting helps, for game play or data downloads or burning software defragmenting does not help and memory increase is usually needed, or programs running in the background tasks that are not needed should be turned off.
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@seenoreen (559)
• Philippines
14 Jan 07
Defragmenting would improve the overall speed of your computer. When you are defragmenting, the files are being re-arranged in a way that the ones that you access frequently are arranged at the first part of the hard drive then other parts are arranged at the end. In this way, opening a program will be much faster. You should do this around twice a year.
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@virky0391 (566)
• Indonesia
14 Jan 07
It also happen with me. I also found an articel that said if we are defragmanting our hard drive, it can boost up our computer performance. I've tried to defragment my hard drive but I don't feel any change at my computer. :(
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@shywolf (4514)
• United States
14 Jan 07
I think that defragging, especially regularly, really does help. Your hard drive can get into a real mess if you let it go for, say, a year, without defragmentation. I actually downloaded a small program from the internet a year or two ago that is supposed to do 'on the fly' defragmentation and it helps to keep my hard drive in good shape even while I am sitting here working on the computer. The program is called Buzzsaw and it is a really good, useful little freeware program. You can find it at:http://www.dirms.com/I hope this info helps you out!^_^
@angelashupe (343)
• United States
14 Jan 07
I really wanted to thank you for sharing the link here. Even though I'm not the origional poster, I am definately going to go and check that out. The computer I'm on could really use it! Thanks again!
@ashwinsinha2003 (156)
• India
14 Jan 07
try asking this question on yahoo answers. here people give fake answers to earn money.
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@smartbrain69 (2790)
• Canada
14 Jan 07
Yes defragmentation really works.I always do it and it improves the performance of the computer.
@shyam4uall (1002)
• India
14 Jan 07
Defragmentation means that this program keeps a good the files needed by a particular program at one side.In our computer the files needed by any particular program is just wondering here and there..defragmentation brings sucg related files in one locality.So when we open any program the files needed by that programs are within the reach of the program and it takes less time in starting.So naturally the performance of the PC increases..I just do the defragmentation thrice or 4 times a month..
@plantit1 (297)
• United States
14 Jan 07
I have only used the defragmenter when I was having trouble with my old computer. Sometimes it would start freezing up on me and acting very sluggish. Using the defragmenter did seem to help it. But it was always a last resort since it takes so long to complete.
@amgupta (274)
• India
14 Jan 07
it depends upon your hard disk capacity...if your hard disk is almost full it will definitely boost the performance reason behind this is that with low disk available and that also fragmented you systems disk manager has to do a lot of job managing your files...so it is always recommended to defragment your system as this will bring all small fragments of free memory together enabling faster and easier access to disk...
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@sidneysoad (101)
• United States
14 Jan 07
Everyone has always advised me to run the defragmentation so the computer will be faster, but I believe it actually rearranges the information on the hard drive. My computer has never run noticeably faster after I go through the process, it always seems exactly the same. I still do it at least once a month.
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@bev_arch_20 (842)
• Philippines
14 Jan 07
yes, try defragmenting once a week it boost your PC's performance.
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@mail4kaja (71)
• India
14 Jan 07
A small correction... The De-fragmentation has nothing to do with the processing speed. Actually, it is the process that re-arranges the file son the Hard-disk that makes the things easy to access and helps system to manipulate files faster..
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@Capndon (337)
• India
16 Jan 07
Defragmenting does not do anything to your processing speed. It works on your I/O speed or the speed at which your computer finds & loads files. It arranges files in order. Something like putting page 2 after 1 & 4 after 3. That way the computer's hard disk need not keep jumping tracks to load all of your file. Nothing to do with your processor though.
@lovable_coolguy (149)
• India
14 Jan 07
yes defragmentation boost up the speed of ur system but it also depends on configuration of ur system for this u needs more ram, intel processor with more GHZ.
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@bargavashok (174)
• India
18 Nov 10
Yeah Defragmenting really helps to boost your cmputer speed . The files saved on your hard disk are cluttered with one another. These are called as fragmented files. So when they are loaded , time consumption increases to access them from the clusters . A defragment is done to remove the clusters. The disk defragment option provided with windows is fine , but for maximum performance and very less memory consumtion try - SmartDefrag from Iobit. Its totally free of cost . :)
