How to Defragment the Hard Disk ( Faster and Easier)

How to defragment the hard disk

The hard drive of our computer is composed of a series of tracks and sectors by way of small pieces of a pie, and when we charge something in such disk, the operating system is va ordering of go by placing various data blocks of the file loaded in the mentioned sectors, one behind another so the playhead go to them in a fast and easy way.

But it happens that with the passage of time, we are continually deleting programs, and charging new ones, "copy and paste" files from one site to another, and finally, we are changing the content of these areas almost every day; the result is that the return of a time we start to notice that your computer no longer has that "joy" before ever notice it somewhat slower.

Starts Windows in safe mode (recommended). Open the start menu and click on thecomputer (my computer in XP). Right click on the drive you wish to defragment andselect Properties. a window will open. Click the Tools tab and then Click Defragment now. Finally, you will see a window. There select the disk you want to defragment, and Click the button defragment disk.

Note: the procedure is almost the same for Windows 7 and the other 

versions. In Windows 95/98/ME, if you use a program during defragmentation, the disk's status can change 

and the algorithm should start afresh with the entire operation. In 

Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7, NTFS file system allows the disk 

defragmentation during the execution of programs and will not start 

from the beginning and continue working. However, the files that are 

being used are not desfragment.

From the command line defragmentation

It is also possible to perform the defragmentation from the command 

line: defrag c:- f.

Tip: 

youcan defragment more fast performing defragmentation until you run the programs. To do this, go to start, run and type regedit. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce. Right click in the right pane and select new value chain. The following name: Defrag. Double click and type:

 c: defrag.exe - f. Restart Windows and log. Defragmentation will start prior to the start of other programs.

Only defragment a file or a directory

Itis possible to only defragment a single file or a directory with Microsoft freewareCONTIG.

Use contig my.archive.iso to defragment a file. It is useful, for example, for recording or for VMWARE virtual machines.

You can defragment a directory (and its subdirectories) with 
contig - s c:\windows\*.*

To defragment all the files on the disk as a background task (this does not slow the PC), use start/low contig - s c:\*.*

Defragment during activation of the screen saver. If you need that your disk is less fragmented as possible, there is a radical solution that is to run the defragmentation whenever the 

screen saver is activated.

JKDefrag is a small freeware that uses the built-in Windows defragmentation systemto defragment the disk. Since it uses the Windows API, it is as secure as the Windows Defragmenter. 

The link is here http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/ and you can download it from here. Then, copy JkDefragScreenSaver.scr in the 

c:\windows directory.

Defragment the emptying (swap) file

By default, the Windows Defragmenter can defragment not emptying 
(swap, pagefile.sys) file. This is a problem since the speed of access to 
this file is crucial. In the same way, Windows can not defragment the files that are being used, as the system registry. There is a program that allows you to do so: PageDefrag. Run PageDefrag, select Defragment at next boot and Click OK. Reboots the computer

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