How system disk fragmentation is sorted

Windows contains a set of programs specifically designed to optimize computer performance, such as maintenance wizards, drive converters (FAT32), Disk Defragmenter, and more. The Disk Defragmenter can rearrange the files and unused space on your hard disk, optimize the speed at which your program loads and runs, and increase the speed of your hard disk access. But when you use Disk Defragmenter, the snail-like sorting speed is annoying you. So let's do some four pieces of disk defragmentation "overclocking".

Close other programs that are running

When Disk Defragmenter is defragmenting the disk, the computer can perform other tasks, but at this point the computer will run slowly, and Disk Defragmenter will take a longer time. During the defragmentation process, the Disk Defragmenter must reboot whenever the other program writes the disk. To prevent Disk Defragmenter from restarting too frequently, be sure to close other programs while defragmenting the disk.

Defragmenting in Safe mode

Because some automatic startup programs are automatically loaded when you start Windows Normally, these autostart programs sometimes read and write to the disk, which affects the Disk Defragmenter operation. At this point, you should restart Windows, and hold down the CTRL key at startup until the Windows Startup menu is displayed, choose Safe Mode to start, and then press ENTER, and the system will enter Windows in Safe mode. In Safe mode, Windows uses the default settings, at which point Windows starts the minimum device drivers that you need, and does not start any user-set Autostart program. When you run Disk Defragmenter in this very "clean" environment, the defragmentation process is undisturbed. However, in Safe mode, you will not be able to access the CD-ROM drive, printer, or other device.

Prohibit rescheduling of programs

By default, Disk Defragmenter will rearrange the most frequently used program files when defragmenting the disk so that they can be started quickly. If you prevent Disk Defragmenter from rearranging the most commonly used program files, you can speed up disk consolidation. The steps are as follows:

1. Click start → programs → accessories → system tools, and then click Disk Defragmenter, and the system pops up the Select Drive dialog box, where you can select the disks you want to defragment.

2. Click the Setup button, the system ejects the Disk Defragmenter Settings dialog box (Figure 1), and clear the "Reschedule program files to enable programs to start faster" check box. When this option is cleared, Disk Defragmenter emits all files in one contiguous unit and does not optimize the program. This speeds up the finishing process, but does not guarantee the fastest start of common programs. Click the OK button.

3. Click "OK" button to start defragmenting the disk. To start a Disk Defragmenter program with a parameter

Disk Defragmenter is actually a Defrag.exe program in the Cwindows folder, which provides several parameters for users to choose to use. To run the program using parameters, follow these steps:

1. Click the "Run" command in the "Start" menu and the system pops up the Run dialog box.

2. In the Open box, type C:windowsdefrag.exe/< parameter >. The parameters that can be used are: "/P" to indicate files that allow system and hidden attributes to be collated, so that the Disk Defragmenter is not bound by the system and hidden files and read more slices at a time; /U "indicates that only file fragments are sorted without ignoring the empty slices between files. In addition, Defrag.exe can be followed directly by the disk character, for example, when starting with "Defrag.exe C:", the Select Drive dialog box will be skipped (Figure 2). These parameters can be used at the same time, can shorten the finishing time, speed up the finishing speed.

3. Click "OK" button to start defragmenting the disk.

By doing this, I'm sure you'll feel a lot better when you use Disk Defragmenter, because your Disk Defragmenter has been "overclocking" to success--the speed is greatly increased.