Defragmenting

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Bob H

I recently did a disc clean up on C drive, I then
Defragmented the drive, on completion I had heaps of free
space gaps where there would normally be none, I now find
my Pc has slowed considerably.
Have I removed something I should not have in the disc
clean up.
Cheers,
Bob
 
In XP gaps between files are to be expected. This helps prevent the need of
defragmenting by allowing some buffer between files so that they can change
size without alway being fragmented. I suspect there is a slight speed loss
in the overhead required to manage the dynamic placement of files.
 
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