Windows utility that optimizes disk performance by eliminating unnecessary fragments and by rearranging files
Arranges the blocks of information for a file into adjacent blocks on your hard drive, which may significantly improve the file access times
A Windows 95 tool that organizes blocks of information on your hard drive to shorten the time it takes to read certain files
Defragmentation is the rewriting of all the parts of a file on contiguous sectors When files on a hard disk drive are being updated, the information tends to be written all over the disk, causing delays in file retrieval Defragmentation reverses this process, and is often achieved with special defragmentation programs that provide up to 75 percent improvement in the speed of disk access and retrieval