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(BW)(BOYERS-MARKETING) Clean-up Your Computer
Technology Writers
MUMBAI, India (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 31, 2007 - Everyone has that co-worker with zero organizational skills (despite what their resume says). Their desk is a mess, their in-box is overflowing and it takes them 20 minutes to find that project they promised you yesterday. Every time you look at their cubicle you feel stressed by the lack of cleanliness. And yet, you are just as organizationally challenged if you aren't defragging your computer's hard drive.
That's right; your hard drive is like a big filing cabinet.As you create, edit and delete files, parts of each file are saved wherever free space is available on the hard drive (like your co-worker who shoves her sexual harassment training pack in between a scatted array of today's budget meeting files).
This slows the file access time considerably as the HDD head has to mechanically go to each fragment, read it and reassemble each tiny piece. If this were only for a couple of files, the difference may not be noticed. But the problem with fragmentation is that once it starts, it's like a spreading disease which leads to subsequent disarray and slowdowns. ...
Source: HighBeam Research, CLEAN-UP YOUR COMPUTER WITH DISKEEPER 2008.