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  • verb Present participle of defragment.

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Examples

  • In fact, Apple, which calls defragmenting a disk "optimizing" it, flatly claims that "You probably won't need to optimize at all if you use Mac OS X."

    Defragmenting a Mac Hard Disk 2008

  • How many here run maintenance checks on their computers such as defragmenting, registry cleaners, file compaction, and stuff like that

    How to see US TV show on Mex ISP - proxy details 2007

  • In fact, in some respects, it strongly resembles "defragmenting" your mind, at least the part where memories are "stored."

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • There was a lot of talk at the Inside Europe ETFs Conference about "defragmenting" the European market to help jump-start the retail side of an ETF market that, on paper at least, makes every bit as much sense in Europe as it does in the States.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page IndexUniverse.eu 2010

  • It also lacks the features of another cleaner, RegistryBooster 2010, such as defragmenting the Registry.

    PCWorld 2010

  • It also lacks the features of another cleaner, RegistryBooster 2010, such as defragmenting the Registry.

    Netflash 2010

  • With a full range of disk cleanup and optimization features such as defragmenting files, the service automatically improves system operation on a regular basis.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2009

  • There are some default settings which you may change to the times you believe your computer will be running, etc. and to pause defragmenting when disk usage reaches a certain percentage.

    Disk defragmenter 2009

  • The only way to tell if it has finished, it to maximize it from the taskbar once in a while and if it says defragmenting, it isn't done, when it says your disk will be defragged on the schedule you have set, it is finished.

    Disk defragmenter 2009

  • It is much faster than the defragger in XP, it took a little less than 3 minutes to finish defragmenting the 250 GB hard drive in my new Vista laptop, and usually 1 minute for the 80 GB hard drive in my XP laptop, the Microsoft defragger usually takes between 15 and 30 minutes in my XP laptop.

    Disk defragmenter 2009

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