My clunky old dell has been worse than usual latly, i am thinking of de-fraging it. I have never done so before, and i heard that some Win computers will actually be slower after a defrag. Does any one know if this will speed up or slow down my dell?
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Windows people tend to go nuts about defraging because it is a simple pill they can take, and feel good about doing something to make their computer better. It is mostly a placebo effect.
More probably your computer has spyware, and that is slowing things down. Welcome to the wonderful world of Windows.
Have a good free anti-virus app like AVG ?
Run those, then defrag if you want. I've never seen a slow down from defraging.
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