| In most cases businesses tend to take their | | | | fragmentation on your computer's hard drive are |
| computer network for granted. We just assume that | | | | most often indicated by a lengthy boot time, long |
| when we arrive to work we'll be able to push the | | | | delays in loading applications and difficulty retrieving |
| start button, log on to our computer and, begin the | | | | documents. Fortunately, a fragmented hard drive |
| day. Despite knowing that much of our business's | | | | does not have to mean the end of your computer's |
| information has been stored on our computers there | | | | life. |
| appears to be an overriding negligent attitude | | | | Your computer's processing time is slowed due to |
| towards ensuring that these computers are | | | | fragmentation, meaning that how your files are |
| maintained properly. | | | | saved on your hard drive will determine how fast |
| For the most part we don't think about the reliability | | | | your computer responds to your requests. All |
| of our computers until something goes wrong and | | | | computers store saved information inside a |
| even then we hold out a blind faith that somehow | | | | designated "block" on its hard drive. These blocks |
| they will right themselves. We've all tried to reboot a | | | | have a limited amount of space in which files can be |
| slow computer or shut an application that is taking | | | | stored and when that block is full your computer |
| too long to load in hopes that it will somehow | | | | moves on to another block to save information. |
| improve the speed of the computer. Nobody ever | | | | Problems begin to surface when you retrieve a file |
| said it would work yet it's exactly what we try to | | | | from a block and make changes. When you re-save |
| do, for no other reason other than it makes us feel | | | | that file it no longer fits inside that same space in the |
| as if we've tried everything. | | | | block and your computer is forced to cut the added |
| There isn't a successful business operating today that | | | | size of the file and store it in another block, now you |
| takes that same approach with other areas of their | | | | have a fragmented file. The next time you try to |
| company. It would be like a company reviewing | | | | retrieve that file your computer has to search the |
| financial records and noticing that they had been over | | | | hard drive for all the information that goes with it. |
| budget for the quarter yet instead of looking at | | | | This causes the delay and over time it only gets |
| areas where they could cut costs or improve | | | | worse. |
| productivity they simply looked at the financial | | | | The solution to your computer's speed problem can |
| records the next day believing that they might have | | | | often be found in defragmentation software. |
| magically changed. | | | | Commonly referred to as defrag, this software |
| The reality of the situation is that over time our | | | | works to counter the causes that lead to |
| computers may slow down and show signs of drag. | | | | fragmentation and restore your computer back to |
| While that may be the lifecycle of a computer there | | | | optimal speed. Installing defragmentation software will |
| is good news for those who would rather invest their | | | | repair your fragmented files and create larger blocks |
| time in practical and proven methods of correcting | | | | on your hard drive to keep your files together. By |
| the problem rather than grasping a rabbit's foot and | | | | cleaning your hard drive of fragmented files the |
| offering up prayers. | | | | speed of your computer will improve significantly and |
| More often than not, when we experience a | | | | you won't have to worry about carrying that rabbit's |
| computer reliability problem that involves speed it can | | | | foot with you to work. |
| be attributed to fragmentation. Sure fire signs of | | | | |