Disk Defragmenter

There's no such utility included with Mac OS X, although Norton Utilities for the Mac will do the job if you feel that it's essential to have your hard drive neatly defragmented. (A defragmenting program moves around the pieces of files on your hard drive in an effort to optimize their placement and speed of opening.)

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