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One of the things that could improve your system performance is to avoid fragmented data on the hard disk. Now, how many of us really remember to put the machine for defragmentation while we go for a meeting or lunch time is a million dollar question. I have seen a lot of my colleagues who’d just click on an excel file and wait in the hope that it’d open!, then naturally comes the swear “f&^%ing Microsoft”.

So I recently found in one of the blogs on how you put your machine to automatically defragment when your machine is idle. So here is how you do it;

Note : Incorrect editing on registry may render your machine unusable and so should be at your own risk.

1. Open Registry Editor (Start->Run->regedit.exe)

2. Go to the node HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ OptimalLayout

3. See if you have a Dword entry named ‘EnableAutoLayout’, if it is not there create a new DWORD and set it to “1″ (watch the capital letters)

Done, that should take care of defragmenting your machine when it is idle.