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Hi. I would like to make make my computer run faster. I have some questions. please take a look.

Will a defrag make my computer run faster?

Is it reiable?

Are there any problems?

How do i Defrag my computer?

Will it get rid of my files on my hard drive?

What does a defrag do?

Please help!!
Thank you.

Thanks

Kimsland answered the questions above very well. I would suggest you must degrag your system atleast once in a while.

Just a minor note; these days, the fully automatic defragmenters can defrag in low space conditions..even less than 5%, depending on the actual size of the fragmented files and actual available drive space.

I have defragged a heavily fragmented volume with thousands of ~20MB files (RAW image files) when available free space was only 6%. I used a commercial (paid) fully automatic defragmenter for this though; the windows defragger still needs 15% minimum and takes forever to run.

I like the auto defraggers over manual/scheduled defraggers because they are the easiest to use (have to do nothing after installing lol) and the most efficient in tackling fragmentation.

Yes at least once a month,but delete all unnecessary files first,with Disk Cleanup.
It removes unused files.
Quote : What does a defrag do?
It mainly creates more HD space.It does not delete files.
Every 3 or 4 do a chkdsk first.
Do you know where to run it from ?

Actually good point zipperman.

Clean out all the temp files first.
I use CCleaner, or download here Directly

Also it can't create more space on a HardDrive exactly (sorry to be picky)
Because the HardDrive physical size remains the same
Sorry I had to write that, because once I wrote that time will go faster in a report, and I was told that time can't go faster, but the job can be completed more quickly (it annoyed the hell out of me!, but I understand it)

Also just as a mention. Vista OS has been set up to automatically Defrag as a task, on default install. Not sure if that's ideal, but basically no need to Defrag Vista, unless you remove this task.

yay. thanks for your help. I will clean up my drive by uninstaling programs and tep files and then defrag my computer. thanks for your help.

Kimsland is right so i just want to add that it is a necessary operation as you
can see the fragments are defraged and gone for faster performance.