Steps You Can Take To Repair Your PC Part 5

In parts one, two three and four of this series, “How to Fix a Slow Crashing Computer,” we talked about cleaning your disk, getting rid of unwanted software, protecting your PC from malicious software programs, and cleaning up the fiels on your registry. Today, we are going to tell you how you can defrag fragmented files on your hard drive.

We commonly have to add and delete files from our computer’s hard drive. However, the computer doesn’t always perform this task in am efficient way. For example, lets say you delete a series of small files and then add a large file. The computer might store the large file by breaking into a series of smaller files which are stored in multiple areas on your hard disk. The files will still be recognized and read as one large file. However, in the process, the harddrive will have to scan multiple parts of the disk to completely read the file. Because hard drive seek time is one of the most significant bottlenecks in a computers performance, this can drag down your computer speed quite a bit.

If you have a ton of “fragmented” files on your hard drive you might hear grinding,sputtering and other weird noises coming from your computer. Microsoft provides you with a defragmenting tool, but if you have never defrag before it will take several days to run. There is a great defragmenter that takes a fraction of the time called Defraggler and can bed o w n l o a d e d f o r f r e e a t www.Defraggler.com .

This information was provided by Arizona Computer Repair and Sales LCC, a Tucson computer repair company providing Tucson computer repairs If you have been following the suggestions in the earlier sections of this series for home computer repair, and still can’t speed up your sluggish computer, then contact a computer repair technician. If you live in the Tucson area, just contact Arizona Computer repair and Sales LLC for our 24/7 mobile computer repair service. We also provide mobile service anywhere in the country through our parent company, National PC Solutions

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