Endless Defrag My System Needs a Lift D. E. Levine
I have an older model PC that I hadn't used in a while and I decided I could resurrect it and get some additional use out of it without upgrading the operating system. It's a Pentium II and I'm running Windows 98 v.1 on it, but there are a lot of things that I can easily accomplish with the machine without going to Windows 2000.
Little did I know that my seemingly simple task would turn into a major headache and eat up a great deal of my time and energy.
Whenever I've used a machine, regardless of whether it's a laptop or desktop, there comes a time when it gets a little "bogged down" as I call it. Although I hadn't used it for a while, after I set up this particular PC and turned it on, I noticed it was taking a very long time to access programs. Eventually, it brought each program up, but my hard drive was taking a beating.
What would I do? I concluded that it would be a good idea to use the Disk Defragmenter tool to optimize the programs and file system on the computer.
The Disk Defragmenter (Defrag) tool comes with your Windows operating system, regardless of which Windows OS or which version you have. Because it's free, fairly easy to use, and I was already experienced at using the tool, I didn't expect to have any difficulties. Using Defrag seemed like a logical, rational action.
