Defragmenting (a.k.a. ‘defragging’) your hard drive is one of the best things you can do to speed up your computing experience. Here’s a simplistic analogy that will help you understand why it’s so important.
Your hard drive is like a roll of toilet paper. As your computer writes files to it, it calculates the number of sheets required to hold the file and then goes hunting. Let’s say your file requires 3 sheets. Your computer goes and finds the first three contiguous sheets available that will fit that file and …

First, let me say up front, 25% free space is a fairly arbitrary rule of thumb. But let’s talk about the why behind it before we worry too much about the number, ok? Keeping a good chunk of space free on your hard drive is particularly important if your computer is low on RAM (memory). You see, your computer needs…

Here are my favorite 3 tricks to speed things up, only one of which costs any money.