Disk Defragmentation

As it's an easier thing for you to read some info from adjacent pages of a book rather than to find it from several scattered pages across the book, likewise is the case with your computer.

If your computer is getting the required data from contiguous hard disk locations then it will show faster performance. Whereas if the data is scattered across the disk with free chunks of memory present in between, then it will make your computer slow.

Putting together the fragmented data and coalescing the free chunks of memory is termed as disk defragmentation. Disk defragmentation is a very vital utility for maintaining PC performance. Therefore Microsoft included this utility in windows and it is called Windows Disk Defragmenter. Performing disk defragmentation regularly is a great thing to speed up your PC

PC Performance Decline Over Time

A new windows install always runs the computer smoother and faster. But with the passage of time the PC performance doesn’t remain the same. The factors involved in degrading the PC performance include reduced disk space, fragmentation of windows files and user data all over the disk, registry problems and increasing number of software programs installed on the system. The solution to fix all these windows problems are the windows system utilities. These system utilities include disk defragmenter, disk cleanup tool, file compressor, add / remove redundant windows programs and also different registry cleaners that are available for free.

System utilities are a key area of modern operating system designing. By using these system utilities PC performance becomes nearly as good as that of a PC with a newly installed windows.