How Do You Defragment A Windows Computer?
Fragmentation can occur in Microsoft Windows systems (But not Apple Macintosh or UNIX/Linux, and to a lesser extent in Windows Vista or Windows 7 systems. Windows Server 2008 has fragmentation under control.). In earlier Windows systems, fragmentation causes a degradation in performance and sometimes a complete system crash (because the system cannot write to the hard drive.) Software such as databases and email exchanges can make fragmentation build more quickly than other software. Take control of your computer. When a Windows computer is new, it has no fragmentation. But, everything that is done on it causes fragmentation, (including the operating system loaded on it which makes it work!) Databases and email programs both use tremendous writes to and reads from the physical disk, and, because of the way Windows writes its information (in a random way all over the disk space), much of it is lost because bits of files are written in non-contiguous spaces. Look at how much free space y
