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2 Protecting and Using Your PC Maintaining Your Disk and Files 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. Note It should be noted that when using a defragmenter you can safely use your computer to work on other applications, 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. 26

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Protecting and Using Your PC
Maintaining Your Disk and Files
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.
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.
Note
It should be noted that when using a defragmenter you can safely use your computer to work on other applications,
but response time will be slower than normal.