What is a System Defrag?

Q. What is a System Defrag?

A. The day you unpack your new computer and start using it, it slows down more and more as each day passes by. The reason for this is because as you use your computer, the files that are called upon to open up your favorite file or program are scattered about your hard drive the more you use your pc. Each time you call upon a file to be opened, the hard drive has to search all over to find these files that are no longer grouped together as they were when you first loaded the program onto your hard drive. What defragmenting does is search the hard drive for these related files and gathers them up and returns them back into a small cluster so that the hard drive can access them more quickly. This in turn speeds up your pc because the hard drive does not have to search such a broad area to access the files needed to open up and run your programs.