Hi all
Does anyone know of a any good computer books on Windows XP
basically to learn about how to use computers &Word, Excel etc?:mrgreen:
For example I didnot know about defragmneting & someone told me about it & it's very useful!
Thank you for your help!
With FAT based filesystems it was rather helpful, but with NTFS and filesystems seen on Unixy platforms, they already make efforts to minimize fragmentation, so unless your disk is nearly full, you shouldn't run into any problems.
Yes. It is a good idea to defragment your drive every month or so to keep it running at optimal performance. Especially after you install or uninstal programs, it tends to leave the drive slightly fragmented. Fragmentation of a drive will cause a decrease in performance in your computer (for example, your computer will tend to boot up slower, and programs will open slower too.)
Agreed. Small percentages of fragmentation won't cause any performance decrease that the user can notice, but once you start getting into double-digit percentages of fragmentation, you will notice an overall "sluggishness" start to set in. There's no single schedule for defragging, because (as nizzy1115 alluded to) fragmentation results from adding, deleting, and modifying files; the more of this you do, the more quickly your drive will become fragmented.
Although there are a lot of good books out there, remember that there is also a lot of good (free) information on the internet. Also, forums just like this one allow you to find out information in your own way by asking questions.
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