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Originally Posted by ryanfx
the swap space is almost always reserved and is flagged as "used" no matter if it is being used or not to ensure that there will always be enough when needed.
Fragmentation has nothing to do with high disk utilisation. Disks with almost nothing on it can be fragmented worse than disks which are filled. This is irrelevant anyways as any defrag utility will fix any serious issues.
The only remedy without buying new hardware is to do a fresh install of your OS. By the sounds of everything your OS is most likely trashed and loaded with junk. Reinstall Windows with a disk or throw on Ubuntu  |
Right about the swap space. I forgot. I know that fragmentation doesn't depend on disk usage. But if it hasn't been defragged in a while and there's been a lot of delete/installs then the seek time has to be up there.
I agree 100% on the clean reinstall though. Zero argument there.