3. Defrag – Defrag – Defrag

I can’t stress enough the need to always perform a defrag on your PC. Windows – by design – has many flaws (hence the viruses, blue screens, crashes etc..) and one of the major downfalls of using this Operating System is the way it handles writing files to the hard drive. Windows has the tendency to split files and scatter them all over the place (Your hard drive) and when it needs the file again, it has to go to so many areas and locate what’s being requested – Think of it this way: This may sound silly but let’s say we have a deck of cards and I scatter them in a room and ask you to collect them. I’m sure it will take you a minute or two to find all the cards, arrange them and hand them back to me as opposed to me putting the cards down one after the other in an organized manner and asking you to do the same. It will take a quarter of the time to do what took you a couple of minutes before. That’s what MyDefrag attempts to do when you run it on your computer.

Defragmentation and Optimization Will Save You Money

By checking the option to run defrag on weekly basis, you in return have saved the harddrive from thousands upon thousands of excessive delayed and extended disk read / write operations hence less wear and tear on your hard drive. But be careful, excessive defragging and Optimizing can actually add to the wear and tear so setting this to weekly should be best practice in my opinion. Figure 1 is a screenshot of the main interface for this program.

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Tips:

1. To get the best out of this program I would make sure that you’ve closed EVERY program running including the icons to the left of the clock. In some scenarios I’ve actually used the Task Manager to end the tasks that I knew are not critical to the system and ran the defrag.

2. You can perform this in much more efficient way by restarting your computer, booting into safe mode (press F9 before the Windows Screen pops up) and selecting Safe Mode. Login to your user profile, make sure that no programs are running and run MyDefrag.

3. Other advanced ways in defragmenting and optimizing your hard drive can be done by setting your Swap file to Zero, restarting in Safe mode and performing the defrag. Don’t forget to reset the Swap file back to its original size or click “Let windows automatically choose …”