Speeding Up Your Computer Loading Times
A simple way to speed up the loading time of your applications, games, etc, is to run a disk defragmenter program. What this does is organize your data together because it gets spread out on your hard drive over time.
By grouping it back together, your hard drive doesn’t have much further to reach when it is loading the data, plus it has to work less so it increases your hard drives life span.
So, to defragment in Windows XP, just click your “Start” button on the task bar, go to “Programs”, then “Accessories” and then finally “System Tools”. In the System Tools folder there is a program called “Disk Defragmenter”. Just open the program and run it over night, because it tends to take a long time. The next morning just reboot and you will immediately notice the speed difference.
If you are using Windows Vista, I read that you can schedule disk defragmentation’s monthly with the scheduler so it will do it automatically overnight, once a month for you.
