Computer machines play a major and fundamental role in today's world. Almost all applications and studies require a big chunk of work, if not all, to be done on these machines. Thus improving their operation and performance will result in a better throughput and an important improvement of the work. In fact, when they want to improve the operation of a computer running the windowsNT operating system, most people think of adding RAM (increasing memory) or upgrading to a more powerful processor. Recent research studies prove there is a simpler solution : every so often, do a disk defragmentation. This feature, available on windowsNT systems, can more than t

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