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Defragmentation is an old and well-known PC maintenance method that helps to prolong harddisk lifespan. It achieves so by moving data bits that spread across the disk closer together and making the used space more compact. As a result the harddisk spindle moves less above the disk when seeking the data you want, therefore head scratch is less frequent - HDD lifespan increases. In some cases, it also helps to consolidate some free space, because if the disk is fragmented and getting full, it is difficult to save a large file on it.

Recently we came across reports saying that defrag could improve system performance as well. For example, MyDefrag claims to be a disk defragmenter as well as optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster). If it is true, it is amazing because we have a new way to speed up our computers. We are skeptical because work applications rarely use file I/O compared to other operations like memory and page file access. It is easy to understand this because you save your work or load another file only once in a while. Memory read is incredibly fast, and page file access is not improved by defragmentation because page file is usually fixed in size or does not get fragmented so easily.

This 5-part series of reviews is a reply to a statement in

Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths

which says "I’d go a step further: Don’t run registry cleaner programs, period. I won’t go so far as to call them snake oil, but what possible performance benefits can you get from “cleaning up” unneeded registry entries and eliminating a few stray DLL files?"

We choose to take the scientific approach, to prove or disprove something, what is better and more objective than testing the assumption in an experiment. Find out whether registry cleaner is useful or not in our 5-part reviews which are the results of our experiment.

Artwinauto.com is run by JF and Winson, two software developers who specialize in machine learning and have experience in projects related to office productivity and education. We do most of our work on computers: programming, internet marketing, writing and editing.

The site is for sharing our view on how to improve productivity and efficiency when working with a windows computer, on how to get things done faster. The articles on our site include many effective tips & tricks, how-tos, guides, tweaks, shortcuts and hacks, also include many reviews of recommended time-saving and productivity enhancement softwares.

Favourite Quote: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

We also develop software programs that help users in their typing and writing work, and make them available for download on our site. Many years of computing experience have led us to believe that discovering and using methods, automatic or semi-automatic, to perform routine tasks in a more efficient way and continuously improve ourselves is the best way to save time in computing. All our programs are freeware as at now.

Our intention is to share our experience, to help people to make their life a little bit easier, and listen to their opinions as well. We enjoying doing that. This site is run by us as a full-time project — it’s not perfect — so if you find any problems or have any suggestions, please let us know. You may contact us via our contact page should you have any questions or feedbacks. We welcome all suggestions. Thank you for your time.

Our content is available under GNU Free Documentation License. Any articles on this website, may be posted, redistributed to other websites, forums, or blogs, we will appreciate if you include a return link back to the original article.

Artwinauto simply means the "Art of Windows Automation", coined by us to mean the art of avoiding manual work on Windows OS.

Have a nice day!

Cheers,

JF & Winson

"Why are you doing that again?" Seeing a colleague for the 3rd time, stopped typing, highlighted a line of words and clicked two buttons in a toolbar on top to italize and underline the line when he could have just pressed Ctrl + i + u when he needed the formatting and carried on typing, and pressed the keys again to return to the original formatting. He had no time to change this habit.