Maintaining Your Disk And Files; Improving File Access Time - HP Brio 80xx Online Manual

Maintaining Your Disk and Files

To ensure that you have a good and efficient working environment, you can use the tools provided with your HP PC to
protect all your files and keep your system at its highest possible performance level. It is recommended that you schedule
maintenance tasks on your PC on a regular basis.

Improving File Access Time

As programs are continually reading or writing to the hard disk, fragmentation eventually occurs, meaning that files are
stored in non-contiguous sectors. Although this does not have any affect on the files themselves, it does take the
computer a longer time to access fragmented files for reading and writing operations. It is therefore advisable to run a
disk defragmenter on a regular basis, as this consolidates files and thereby improves file access time.
It should be noted that when using a defragmenter you can safely use your computer to work on other applications,
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but response time will be slower than normal.
This tool can be accessed from the HP data protection center.
Refer to the Windows 95 documentation for information on how to use the disk defragmenter utility.
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