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Does Wiping free space improve performance of the computer? Has anyone tried it?
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No, it doesn't.
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Silly me! It says the same here too. Sorry for asking such a noob question lol. Feeling awkward!

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If you want to boost the computer speed, you can go with the defragmentation process. It frees up the clusters on the hard disk and combines the fragmented files

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Ordinarily, that won't make an appreciable difference (especially with SSDs), since Windows does this by default every week.

Beside which the OP's question was about wiping free space...
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