FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

TROUBLESHOOTING COMPUTER ISSUES

IDENTIFYING HARDWARE SOFTWARE NETWORK PROBLEMS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which utility should you run regularly to optimize your computer’s hard disk performance?
A
DEFRAG
B
BOOTREC
C
FORMAT
D
FDISK
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It will analyze, defragment, and optimize any drives that are connected to your machine. It has a few more features than the native Windows tool. For example, Disk SpeedUp can automatically shut down your computer after the defrag process is complete.

Detailed explanation-2: -Microsoft Drive Optimizer (formerly Disk Defragmenter) is a utility in Microsoft Windows designed to increase data access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, a technique called defragmentation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Select the search bar on the taskbar and enter defrag. Select Defragment and Optimize Drives. Select the disk drive you want to optimize. Select the Optimize button.

Detailed explanation-4: -What does defragging your computer do? Defragmentation reverses the process your computer uses to break up data when it saves files to your hard drive. Defragging reformats your drive, reconstituting the files that were fragmented when they were written (saved) to your disk.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Windows utility Defragment and Optimize Drives (formerly Disk Defragmenter) is used to defragment hard disk drives or to optimize solid state drives. Solid-state drives can also be fragmented, but that does not impact their performance as they do not have mechanical parts used for data reading and writing.

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