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facturer¡ªwere standardized under the name ATA-2. EIDE EIDE happened to stick and become the most popular name for the ATA-2 stand ard.How Hard Drives Work Hard drives consist of hard metallic platters, which store magnetic data, and an actuator arm that moves across the platters to read and write information on the hard drive. What is Fragmentation? Sometimes files on a hard drive, which consist of many small chunks of magnetic data, get separated from one another. When this happens, a file is considered fragmented crumpled paper texture , and the actuator arm must move over more surface area to read the file, making file access times slower. Why Hard Drives are Def ragmented Defragmentation tells a hard drive to arrange its files in order so that it takes less time to read them. Why Flash Memo PurplePixie ry Isn't Defragmented Defragmenting a flash memory device including USB flash drives will only repeatedly write to the disk, pro .
ragmentation would cause flash memory to stop working.1 Look at the tray at the bottom of your desktop. You will see a little box that looks like a TV. This is the icon for your wireless connection. 2 Use the mouse to right-click on this icon. A drop down box will appear. Click on Open Available Wireless Networks to open the connection panel. 3 Look at the available networks. Find the network that you plan to connect to and have a password to use. You must have a password for the secure wireless networks. After y 3d modeling ou find the name of the network that you will connect through, click on Connect. 4 Enter the password in the box that pops up as king for a pass code. This should be supplied to you from the owner of the network. If you are using a router in your own home, th PurplePixie e password that you gave to your router when you set your security setting is what you use. You will be asked to enter the pass co .
se a wireless adaptor. If you have an integrated wireless card, you are good to go. But if your computer lacks an integrated solut ion, you will need to obtain an external wireless adaptor. Otherwise, you will not be able to connect to a wireless Internet sourc e of any kind, even if you have the other equipment on hand. 2 Prepare for software installation of the external wireless adaptor. Your adaptor will come with software that will install the necessary drivers on your computer. Follow the simple on-screen instru scarsdale diet ctions, hit Next to move through the installation wizard, and wait for the program to ask you to install the external adaptor. T his is simple, as most external wireless cards simply plug into the computer's USB port. 3 Restart your computer when the installa PurplePixie tion finishes and when prompted by the software wizard. 4 Configure the TCPIP settings of your newly installed wireless adaptor o .
