As tweakers, it is in our nature to try to extract every last bit of speed from our systems. We overclock our CPU´s, optimize our RAM settings, buy fast hard drives, and make sure everything is humming along just smoothly. A popular speed upgrade is to get a 7200RPM hard disk, with at least 2 Megs of cache. This is a solid upgrade that will boost your system responsiveness. But once you have your drive, you can still tweak it on a regular basis to make sure that it is running the way the Gods meant it to run.

In come the disk defragmentation utilities. "Defragmentation?? What the heck is that?!" you say. Well, it´s quite simple really. Let me demonstrate visually.