My friend said something about defraging my computer. Whats is this what does it do and how do i do it? (and yes i have no computer knowledge) so dont ridicule me saying i am a moron just give advice or not thanks :D Have a wonderful day and Merry Christmas :)

I think it's when your computer cleans up your hard drive by making all neat and orderly (I think).

I think the computer destroys your hard drive (remove everything).

I think the computer destroys your hard drive (remove everything).

LOL




Also, it orders the files on your HD to allow for quicker access. I also think it deletes unnecessary files.

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Also, it orders the files on your HD to allow for quicker access. I also think it deletes unnecessary files.

wait...so my games and my writing files will all be gone?

wait...so my games and my writing files will all be gone?

By unnecessary I mean old cache files, empty folder, etc. Your files will be fine.

Defrag your harddrive daily (around once a week). If you don't for a while it takes forever to defrag it.

Defrag your harddrive daily (around once a week). If you don't for a while it takes forever to defrag it.

lmao i have this comp for well over 4 years and i never defragged it O_o how long do you think it will take lol
:(

lmao i have this comp for well over 4 years and i never defragged it O_o how long do you think it will take lol
:(

Overnight, leave your comp on and in the morning you may be done.

defragging a pc depends on your system i.e. the size of your harddisk (or defragmenting partition, if you have any) and the rest of your system, being cpu and ram (those measure how fast they process all the files and order them again).

defragmentating is usefull when you constantly delete and install files, continuously doing so causes your harddrive to place a whole variety of files on a random, diffirent location eventually causing a slowdown in loading up those files when used because your HD needs to look for them first.
Defragging will orden up those file (if they can be ordened, windows files cannot be moved) so your HD speeds up again.

in games, this can cause stuttering (eventhough this is only a slight proportion compared to a lack of memory).
having a totally distorted hard drive can also cause crashes in games.

It's like this, when data is put on your hard drive, it's put in what ever place it can fit it, often breaking a single file into many parts around the drive. So when it wants to open that file, it needs to go around and collects all those parts. Defragging will put all those little parts into the same location, making the drive access a lot faster.

so how do i defrag on xp? can some one tell me?

http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Use that. It's a lot better than the Microsoft one that comes with your computer.

is this safe?

Try computer mechanic 7, there's the defrag option. It's really good, no kidding (You can download the free-trial on download.com ) It has tons of other features too...analysis, registery cleaning, anti-spyware, anti-virus, etc.

is this safe?
I use it all the time.

I use it all the time.
dude my mouse moved and it disapeared.....do i gotta start over?

Defrag your harddrive daily (around once a week). If you don't for a while it takes forever to defrag it.

Daily once a week?

Anywho. Defraging keeps your computer nice and fast. Also try Disc CleanUp.


Start> All Programs> Accessories> System Tools.

Do give it a night or so to run. (Depending on your HD space.) I've used about 60gb on my internal HD and it still takes about an hour.

how many phases are there?

dude my mouse moved and it disapeared.....do i gotta start over?
You probably ran the screensaver version.

You have to just run the one called "JkDefrag"

There's no drop-down menu's or anything either. Just double click it and it does all the work.

You probably ran the screensaver version.

You have to just run the one called "JkDefrag"

There's no drop-down menu's or anything either. Just double click it and it does all the work.

there 3 other ones.... witch one? and will i be able to browse while its running?

there 3 other ones.... witch one? and will i be able to browse while its running?
Just run the one called JkDefrag. It's not that hard. <_< And yes you can still browse while its running.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3272/jkdefragzo2.png

Just run the one called JkDefrag. It's not that hard. <_< And yes you can still browse while its running.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3272/jkdefragzo2.png
lol ok man thanks

Oh, one more thing. You're probably wondering about all the colors you see on your screen.

* Black = empty
* Dark-green =in use by unknown data
* Light-Green = regular files
* Green = spacehogs
* Yellow = fragmented
* Red = unmovable
* Pink = system files
* White = busy

In the end it should look something like this:
http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/Snapshot.gif

so when it says 100% it stops... do i exit or is somthing else gonna happend?

because there is still some kind of numbers still accuring.

is this safe?

that's actually funny.
That almost like presuming that microsoft inserted a self destruct program into their operating system.

then again, going from their previous market stunts, i wouldn't be surprised if they did. After all, if defragging did destroy your pc, you'd have to buy a new pc from the under-table-companions of microsoft ...

And when it stops, you'll get a pop up with the results saying what files couldn't be defragged and soforth. when you get that pop up, you can close it down
When you happen to close the program down while it's busy defragging, i'm pretty sure it doesn't undo the progress

that's actually funny.
That almost like presuming that microsoft inserted a self destruct program into their operating system.

then again, going from their previous market stunts, i wouldn't be surprised if they did. After all, if defragging did destroy your pc, you'd have to buy a new pc from the under-table-companions of microsoft ...

And when it stops, you'll get a pop up with the results saying what files couldn't be defragged and soforth. when you get that pop up, you can close it down
When you happen to close the program down while it's busy defragging, i'm pretty sure it doesn't undo the progress

That's actually funny.

He was referring to the program that Athias suggested, JKDefrag.

ok i ran it twice and my computer still blows like the north wind :)