In order to make the system perform better, we often need to defragment the disk, but for large-capacity hard drives, this work usually takes a lot of time. This article will introduce you to some acceleration. Tips for defragmenting disk.
1. Close the application
Since some programs may need to read the data on the hard disk repeatedly during the running process, this will affect the normal operation of the defragmentation program. Stable situations can even lead to crashes. Therefore, in order to speed up the defragmentation of disk defragmentation, it is best to turn off each running program.
2. Adjust parameters or use special software
If the capacity of the hard disk or the capacity of the partition is relatively small, it will take too long to defragment it, but for some stuffing For large hard disks and partitions of data, a long wait process is required. Therefore, when we are arranging these large-capacity hard disks or partitions, we can take the following two measures: First, you can turn off the optimization parameters in the finishing program attached to the Windows 9x system itself, which can speed up the defragmentation, but this method The effect may not be obvious. Alternatively, use a dedicated defragmentation tool to organize the hard disk or partition. For example, the Vop99 software I currently use is very fast. If we use Vop99 to defragment the disk every day, the disk will be optimized in a matter of minutes and the system will remain optimal at all times. I recommend that you use Windows's scheduled task program to set Vop99 to run automatically at least once a week. Before
3. Modify the registry automatically turn off the screen saver during defrag
work, we must first turn off the screen saver, or Disk Defragmenter will start again, but if every time It is sometimes cumbersome to manually close the application. Here I tell you a little trick, that is, by automatically modifying the registry to achieve automatic shutdown of the screen saver. The specific steps are as follows: First, use the regedit command on the command line to open the registry, navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software \\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Applets", and then find out if there is a "Defrag" key in this path. , just create a new one, the system has this key value by default. Create a new primary key named "Settings" under the "Defrag" key, then create a primary key named "DisableScreenSaver" under the newly created primary key, and finally change its default string value to "YES". can. The screen protection will be automatically masked each time you run Disk Defragmenter, and it will be automatically restored after the operation is completed.
4. change the location of the swap file
we know that if a large number of fragments exist in the C drive, may affect the system's boot speed. In order to speed up the system startup, we should try to reduce the fragmentation in the C drive. In Windows 95/98 system, when the physical memory required by the application is insufficient, by default the system will generate a temporary swap file named win386.swp in the C:\\Windows system directory of the hard disk, and use this file. The occupied hard disk space is used as virtual memory, and even if no operation is performed, the file exists as long as the computer is turned on. Obviously, the virtual memory management program frequently reads and writes hard disks and generates a lot of fragmentation, which is the main reason for disk fragmentation. Because users are accustomed to installing Windows 95/98 systems and applications in the C:\\Windows and C:\\Program Files directories respectively, it takes up a lot of space. In order to avoid frequent fragmentation and frequent reading and writing of a large number of fragments on the C drive, we can specify the generation path of the temporary swap file in other partitions. The specific steps are as follows: Select "Control Panel" * "System", click the "Virtual Memory" button in the "Performance" tab of the dialog box, select the "User-specified virtual memory settings" option, and then from the "Hard Disk" option Select "D:\\" in the middle (note: the available space of the D disk cannot be less than 100MB), and finally click the "OK" button. After restarting the system, we will find that the win386.swp temporary swap file has been generated in the root directory of the D drive.
5. Change the location of the temporary folder
When surfing the Internet using IE browser, in order to spend less money to access more information, users often take offline browsing methods. Make an access. Each time you go online, IE will leave a lot of temporary files in the C:\\Windows\\Temporary Internet Files directory. If we frequently surf the Internet, Internet Explorer may generate a large number of temporary files in this directory. It will also frequently read and write the hard disk and generate a lot of fragmentation, which will affect the access speed. To avoid this, we can also assign temporary directories to other partitions. The method is as follows: First, create a temporary file storage directory in the D disk, select "Control Panel" * "Internet Options", click the "Settings" button in the opened dialog box, and then click the "Move Folder" button. Select the corresponding directory in the D drive.
6. retain a certain disk space
we will find in use, if the remaining hard disk space is too small, the speed to run the application will be very slow, it is difficult to defrag get on. Therefore, for smaller disk partitions, it is best to keep more than 15% of available space; for larger disk partitions, it is best to keep more than 5% of available space; for boot partitions, at least 40MB of available space. In addition, in the process of using the computer, we should release the wasted disk space in time, such as frequently emptying the recycle bin, deleting the history after surfing the Internet, and deleting temporary folders and files.