Basic Computer Maintenance: 

Defragmenting Your  Computer

This is an essential task that will keep your computer running efficiently.  The purpose of defragmenting your PC (or  zapping the P-Ram for MAC users) is to clean up broken or fragmented files and data.  We equate this to cleaning up a bedroom.  As you go throughout the week getting up, going to work or school, you tend to rush through your drawers grabbing what you need to get ready for the day.  Clothes get tossed here and there, socks may not get put back in the sock drawer and so on.   These are the same actions your computer goes through when you using software uploading and downloading information on the  computer.   The computer processor feverishly goes out to find data you have clicked on and in the process moves, tosses,  and throws files out of its way.  Over time things get messy and your computer slows down.   Defragmenting  your computer cleans up the mess and puts things back in order again, just like putting the socks neatly back into the sock drawer.  We suggest defragging  your computer at least once a week.