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Defrag
Well Defrag is just the finish of the procedure.
Always make sure ALL applications are closed before you do maintenance on your hard drive.
1. Do a ScanDisk or Chkdsk of your computer hard drive with the Scan Disk feature of windows under Accessories/System Tools.
2. After, again insure no other application is running, all the way down to Screen Savers. Why? Any process that starts up will be recognized by the hard drive and the defrag will start all over again because 'Drive Contents Have Changed'
Scan Disk will find any file mismatch errors and fix them automatically. ( A disk with file errors will not defrag )
Depending on usage of your machine the above should be done at a minimum once a month. If you see the fragmented report is always light, make it every two months. Heavy defragmenting, do it every two weeks.
Also, 2 free utilities to insure you rid yourself of ad-ware are Ad-Aware ( free version ) and Spy-Bot ( Free Version). These work very well and remove spy-ware and ad-ware from your machine.
The Ole Sarge
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