How often do you defrag?

How often do you defrag?

  • Once a day (or more)

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  • After I delete/uninstall stuff.

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That's a good way to send your hard drive(s) to an early grave.

Not true. With daily defrags the amount of data moved is small and what little wear it may cause is gained back with less "bumpy" reading when using the comp. Last and the only HD I've ever had broken was 20MB one in the early 90's.

If you want to be fanatical, you can defrag maybe 2-3 times a month, but even that's fairly pointless unless you are doing a crapton of file movement to cause fragmentation. Most people really don't need to do it more than 2-3 times per year.

I disagree. Windows itself frags the HD very badly and it writes the files all over the place. All decent defraggers keep files in reasonable places (like commonly used system files and other progs at the start of a partition) reducing both seek times and HD stress.
 
I defrag whenever I think of it. Not too much or too little, I want to extend the life of this thing.

I also do it when I'm away from the computer since the tapping noise scares the hell out of me.
 
Have never done it on this computer and I've had it for quite some time. I should do it, I've just had such a hellishly busy period in my life that I have no time right now.
 
It's sort of the thing you can set to running pretty quick as you leave the house and it will be done when you get back :p
 
It's sort of the thing you can set to running pretty quick as you leave the house and it will be done when you get back :p

Sometimes I set up the computer for a diskcheck and tell my mom that when it's done, to do a defrag. It's the only time I trust her with the computer, since at least she knows how to defrag.

I miss the little colored blocks that were on the Windows 9x defrag. :lol: Anyone know if there's a way to get those back?
 
Sometimes I set up the computer for a diskcheck and tell my mom that when it's done, to do a defrag. It's the only time I trust her with the computer, since at least she knows how to defrag.

I miss the little colored blocks that were on the Windows 9x defrag. :lol: Anyone know if there's a way to get those back?

XP - They're there.

2k/Vista - Nothing you can do.

7 - Theres a setting somewhere.
 
No, I have XP and it has the colored bars -- not the little blocks.
 
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