Week Seven: Clear Disk Defragmentation

Once upon a time there was a teenage girl who was given her very own computer for the first time. This girl loved music and quickly began uploading her CD collection and downloading tracks she didn't already own. Before long, her computer was running slow and she barely had any space left on her mere 60 GB hard drive. What was a girl to do? Luckily, the girl in our story had a father who was very knowledgeable about computers and told her to run a disk defragmentation. The first time she ran this tool it took a very long time- nearly two hours- because all the files on her computer were spread out. The defragmentation tool bar looked like it was a rainbow because of all the separated files! Almost immediately she found her computer was running faster and she visibly had more available storage space on her computer. From then on she regularly ran the disk defragmentation utility to keep her PC at a high level of performance. The End.

The girl in the story, well, she was me. In high school I learned the value of regularly running a disk defragmentation after downloading waaay too much music. To this day, I still run the utility on a regular basis and like to think that this small conscious move will help expand the life of my computer.