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When your machine is new or you’ve performed a clean installation all the files are fairly well neatly laid out on the hard disk:
When you run a program and create a new file, edit an existing file, uninstall a program you no longer need, or even when you go online, then gaps appear in the way files are laid out on the disk. The process of continually creating, extending and deleting files causes your hard disk files to become fragmented, which means that pieces of a file are stored here, with some pieces there, and a few pieces all the way over there. Over time, many files are fragmented and poor disk performance becomes noticeable:
Usually it’s normal, everyday use slows that Windows down. In this article we look at file fragmentation and what can be done about it.
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