IT professional and author, Justin James of TechRepublic published a top 10 list of ways to speed up your PC. Number 9 was one very familar to us:
"9: Defrag. Defragging your hard drives is a great way to get some more performance. While modern Windows systems automatically defrag on a regular basis, I’ve found that the Windows defragging is fairly unaggressive. We’ve reviewed a lot of different defrag apps here at TechRepublic. I suggest that you check out your alternatives and find one that does a better job for you."
Their findings mimic what we see with many of our business customer seeking to maximize Windows 7 performance. The built in defragmenter sounds like an attractive option at first, but closer inspection and testing clearly demonstrates significant value (better ROI) in advanced third party optimization technology.
Read the whole article here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-things-you-can-do-to-boost-pc-performance/2712?tag=nl.e101