I don't get it.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Say, I defragged my machine for the first time since I got it in January, and I heard that that would make it run better and all that. But, I think that it just made it confused about its identity, and purpose. XD;; Oh, boy...

Well, my mother knows next to nothing about computers, and she says that the below is bad. Frankly, I think it looked prettier when it was a whole bunch of strings of more-varied colors. Opinions? Comments?

[May-chan]

huh? looks good as far as I can tell...

[Stellar]

o_o

[Mitera Nikkou]

huh? looks good as far as I can tell...

Before, or after? I'm referring to the state before defragmenting. I just see a bunch of lines. XD;;

[May-chan]

soooo... >_> I see... you were just commenting on the aesthetics...

[Mitera Nikkou]

Yes and no... ^_^; My mother said that it looked bad (technical-wise), and I don't know either way, so I joked that it looked better in an aesthetic way. But I would like to know the technical side of it.

[May-chan]

as far as I can tell it looks good to me...

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Say, I defragged my machine for the first time since I got it in January, and I heard that that would make it run better and all that. But, I think that it just made it confused about its identity, and purpose. XD;; Oh, boy...

Well, my mother knows next to nothing about computers, and she says that the below is bad. Frankly, I think it looked prettier when it was a whole bunch of strings of more-varied colors. Opinions? Comments?

The top one is bad, the bottom one is VERY good. You want to have it to be as much blue and white as possible. And you want the blue to be close together. Red is bad, it means the files are all screwed up. It's like looking into a messy room, versus a clean room.

Note: I am jealous about your memory, I only have 1/3 of that.

[May-chan]

my comp would have 50gb more space if I would get around to figuring out how to format the darn partition I accidentally made -_-

[Mitera Nikkou]

May:

I think I remember the topic about the partition incident. Formating and stuff didn't work and all that, right?

Mitchell:

Well, I haven't seen any signs that my computer works better yet. Hmmmm... Maybe it's just the same with less effort, and that's what it's all about?

[Coruscate]

Imagine running through a room with a spotlessly clean floor, easy huh?

Now imagine running through a room where you can't see the floor. Sucks don't it?

Defragging is just a filing job. It's like asking a secretary to find a certain record or file with every file and paper from the cabinet strewn on the desk out of order.

Defragging is a good thing. Do it at least once a year, but optimally once every three months.

The sooner you do it next, the less time it will take to perform. "Scandisk" (same area of the start menu you use to start defrag) is also a good tool you need to use regularly. It's the "dentist" that checks the teeth on the hard drive and watches out for cavities (bad sectors on your hard drive).

[Chibi MitchellTF]

*nods at Nikkou and Kuro's comments*

I'd suspect the increase in efficiency is not noticable unless it gets REALLY bad, and that doing it early is merely prevenative.

As Kuro mentioned, it takes less time if you do it early. I'd also add that it prevents it from ever becoming insanely necessary, and your computer takes a ridiculous amount of time to open Word documents.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Well, maybe I won't wait until eleven months to do my next defragging. XD

I think that my last computer died because of a bad sector or something. I'm not sure. I just remember something about sectors.

[Selena Aninikkou]

Contiguous files are good. Fragmented files are bad.

In short, lots of blue and little red.

*Doesn't have to deal with defrag anymore*

[Cutey Kerina]

;_; waaa I want that much Hard Disk space.