Defragmentation - Defragmenting and Optimizing

Defragmenting and Optimizing

Besides defragmenting program files, the defragmenting tool can also reduce the time it takes to load programs and open files. For example, the Windows 9x defragmenter included the Intel Application Launch Accelerator which optimized programs on the disk. The outer tracks of a hard disk have a higher transfer rate than the inner tracks, therefore placing files on the outer tracks increases performance. In addition, the defragmenting tool may also use free space on other partitions or drives to be able to defragment volumes of low disk space.