Joe Hatch Presentation

Hello again, blogging world!  Last week in class we were visited by Joe Hatch from Tech Support, who talked to us about computer "survival skills" and gave us all sorts of useful tips for helping our computers run more smoothly.  My favorite tip: Defragmentation.  Defragmentation is a process that resorts all of the files and information on your computer into a neat and orderly manner.  Often a computer writes information on the disk in an inefficient way, sometimes writing different sections of a single file in multiple locations on the disk, causing programs to run slowly.  Defragmentation reorganizes this and eliminates unnecessary clutter, making your computer run much more smoothly.  Here's how it's done: Go to Start- Accessories- System Tools- Disk Defragmenter.  Make sure any unnecessary programs are closed ahead of time, and that any programs you don't want on your computer are uninstalled.  Now just sit back and relax as your computer defragments!  It should only take a couple of minutes.  Although I myself haven't done this yet (this is a PC process and I have a Mac), I can't wait to tell my mom how this is done- she struggles with her laptop frequently and will be thrilled to hear about this method.  

Have a great week!