Defragging

Ah the memories, often associated in my mind with dial up internet.

I cannot remember Windows 3.1 but I certainly can remember Windows 95, which had a semi manual system for defragging your computer. I suppose I used to do it every few months, and with another system check, which I no longer remember. What is defragging? The proper word would be defragmentation, so it is correcting when everything is fragmented. It pulls together bits and pieces on your hard drive into a more orderly manner, hopefully to improve your computer's performance. 

I think we moved on to Windows 98 but certainly not Windows ME, which was and is known to be less stable than previous versions of Windows. The next was Windows XP and then Windows 10, which is what I am now using and have for a very long time.

I am being nagged by Microsoft to upgrade to Windows 11, and I guess I will have to bite the bullet at some point and change over. 

Now defragging happens automatically and you don't know what your computer is doing in the background, as it looks after itself.

Here is a nice clip of what you saw when you were defragging back in the 90s. I used to find it quite mesmerising and strangely relaxing.