PC Pitstop Disk MD

Every day your PC is in use, files are being written and erased from your hard drive. Over the space of days, months and years, your hard drive becomes fragmented. The performance benefits to disk defragmentation can be enormous. We have observed real life systems with files that have as many as 10,000 fragments! In these cases, your hard drive begins thrashing and the time to read a file increases by over a hundred times.

Our analyzer takes a good look at the most fragmented files on your system. Our research indicates that aside from Windows Restore Points, web browsing (Internet Explorer and Firefox) and email (Outlook and Thunderbird) are the heaviest contributors to disk fragmentation. If you use these applications on a regular basis, your system is even more susceptible to disk fragmentation. Lastly, although it is tempting, never read email or browse the web while doing a disk defragmentation. It is defeating the purpose.