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PC Speed – Why is my PC slow and what can be done about it ?
The speed of your computer is determined by three things: the CPU, the memory and the disk drive(s). The CPU operates at speeds of a fraction of a billionth of a second. (That's fast). The memory operates at speeds of one hundred-millionth of a second. (That's fast, too.)

PC Speed
The disk requires hundredths of a second for each operation. (That's slow.) The disk is a million times slower than the next fastest component. So, if you were looking for why your PC is slow, where would you look first? Right! The disk.

If your CPU speed is cut in half, and your memory speed is cut in half, your PC speed will still seem downright peppy so long as the disk is running at full speed. But if that disk slows down, even a little bit, you notice it. And if it slows down a lot, you really notice it.

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How do I get my slow PC running fast again?


The primary reason a disk slows down is fragmentation. Here's what I mean by "fragmentation."

Fragmentation is essentially little bits of data or information that are spread over a large disk area causing your hard drive to work harder and slower than it has to just to read a single file.

Disk fragmentation is a natural occurrence and is constantly accumulating each and every time you use your computer. When your computer files are saved in small pieces scattered across your hard drive, your computer has to go looking all over the disk, in a hundred thousand or a million places, to find the exact data you are looking for. No wonder it's slow!

A single fragment requires one hundredth of a second to retrieve, so two fragments take two hundredths of a second, a hundred fragments take a whole second, a thousand fragments take ten seconds. I could go on, but the arithmetic is daunting. You get the idea, I'm sure.

The simplicity and wonder of Diskeeper® performance software is it finds all the pieces of a file and puts them all back together neatly in one place. We call that a "contiguous" file, meaning "all back together neatly in one place."

Diskeeper Automatically Speeds PC Performance

Diskeeper is the ultimate performance optimizer for your PC. It will neatly store your files contiguously end-to-end without fragmentation, so you get faster PC speed — without any effort on your part.

A contiguous file can usually be read by your computer in one disk operation-a hundredth of a second. And if all your files can be retrieved in a hundredth of a second each instead of seconds or even minutes, your slow PC is going to be fast once again, just like when it was brand new. Sound good? What is it worth to you to have your PC or laptop like new again? Try it for yourself and you will quickly see how little effort it takes to increase your PC speed, performance, reliability and energy efficiency - automatically!

“Always a required install on ANY PC I own!!Since Windows 98 to Windows 7, has always accelerated my file access, start-up, and shutdown.”

- Starke Donnally


“AWESOME! Diskeeper is very easy to use. This version shows the dedication your company has with making each PC run at optimal speed.”

- Brandon Butler


“Biggest benefit: Speed without undue overhead. It makes defragmentation a truly ‘set it and forget it’ operation.”

- Gerald D. Baldwin

Download a free trial of Diskeeper to speed up your PC today »







 
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