Defragmentation and You

What is fragmentation? That is a question that I am asked from time to time especially when a friend is experiencing computer slow down. Fragmentation is a condition of your hard drive disk in which files are divided into pieces and scattered through out the hard drive. Fragmentation is a natural occurrence that happens when you use your hard drive frequently, creating, modifying or deleting files. What this means in laymen’s terms is this: Say you have a digital movie of a birthday party, a 500 MB file. You also have 2 GB of free hard drive space. But there … Continue reading