How Does Defragging a Hard Drive Increase CPU Speed?
File Fragmentation After running the defragmentation utility on a computer, Windows users will often see an improvement in the overall performance of their system. In between defragmentations, files on a computer’s hard drive become increasingly fragmented, meaning that portions of files are spread further away from each other on the drive. Every time a piece of data is opened, saved or modified, the whole file system becomes more fragmented. This forces the central hard drive to work harder in order to properly read files, which can severely decrease the CPU speed. Defragging Process When a Windows user runs the defragmentation utility, which is included with all recent versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, the computer works to restore all file systems to continuous streams of data. Defragmentation allows the computer’s hard drive to read system files faster and run the operating system at a higher speed. Defragging a hard drive can sometimes take more than 1 hour, but
