The Official Computer Geeks Thread

Zer0 · 10-13-2011, 06:44 PM

Defragging is indeed quite useful. I defragged the C drive on my dad's computer a few weeks ago because it hadn't been defragged in about two years. It's an old Dell with 512MB RAM and XP and was also one of the slowest computers I've ever used. It basically took hours but it seemed to run a bit quicker and smoother as a result. Also setting the Windows graphic settings to the minimum helped improved the performance even more. I defrag my laptop HD every couple of months and even my ipod the odd time just to keep them working as quickly as possible. One time I somehow ended up with about 10GB extra free space on my laptop HD which was a bit strange.

10-13-2011, 06:44 PM	#24 (permalink)
Zer0 ∞ Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,792	Defragging is indeed quite useful. I defragged the C drive on my dad's computer a few weeks ago because it hadn't been defragged in about two years. It's an old Dell with 512MB RAM and XP and was also one of the slowest computers I've ever used. It basically took hours but it seemed to run a bit quicker and smoother as a result. Also setting the Windows graphic settings to the minimum helped improved the performance even more. I defrag my laptop HD every couple of months and even my ipod the odd time just to keep them working as quickly as possible. One time I somehow ended up with about 10GB extra free space on my laptop HD which was a bit strange. __________________ Last FM \| RYM \| The Final Sound