Ever since Microsoft released Windows Vista in 2007, I’ve absolutely hated the Disk Defragmenter in the operating system. It was fine in 98, 2000, and XP, but in Vista it is absolutely stupid. For some reason, it automatically decides that you want to defragment all of your disk drives by default – and most of …
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Feb
07
2009
Should you defragment your RAM? (How to guide)
Well, everybody knows that Vista can’t really be ran on 1GB RAM – especially if you use a lot of system programs. I personally know differently, because I’ve found out that if you can “defragment” your systems RAM once the amount of available RAM falls below a certain point, you can clear up some used …
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Oct
03
2008
Is defragmenting really worth it?
I’ve been defragmenting my hard disks once every 3 months ago for about the last 3 years, and it hasn’t ever caused me a problem. It does take quite a few hours, but I just leave it to do its job and that’s that. But it is really something to worry about? Well it’s never …
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