Defragmenting

[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

 

[Dr. Bongo T. Mycoxiphlopin]

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.