Nt1110 U8 Assignment 1

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NT1110 11/12/2013 When a file is stored in clusters that are not physically located next to each other on the platter, it is fragment. Fragmented can occur for various reasons, but most common cause is the modification of deletion of a file(Impact). To explain it generally is that there are three files. First one takes three spaces and the second and third takes two spaces. We remove the second one and replace with a five space file. Since all five can't fit within the two spaces, we put two into the space and put the rest at the end. This is called fragmentation. Fragmentation can affect all files, including system files. As a result fragmentation will affect all Windows system(Impact). As a normal user, the hard drives will fragment over time and activities such as updates or installing and deleting of programs can cause major fragmentation. It will cause the performance to degrade over time. [Search the Internet for information about how process load and the number of running processes affect system performance.] Technically RAM does not have an influence on the processor performance, but it does have an influence on how much processes or technically instructions that processor can read. So a greater amount of RAM memory means that more instructions fit into that memory and therefore, bigger programs can be loaded at once.(Computer) Allowing the operating system to work with a multitasking concept, where we can run multiple programs at once. To explain how it works, you have 128MB of RAM on your computer and you need to load up multiple programs that are 512MB. That means you would have slowness as it has to load a piece of that program, then it has to refresh, then load up the rest of the program. Thus you will feel a slowness when loading a big program. There are many factors that affect the performance of a Windows computer system. The main are, not

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