how often should you defrag your computer

[nauc]

daily, weekly, monthly or what

thanks

[AliG]

I do it like once every decade I remember to, but people that actually do it on average do it every other week or so, but don't quote me on it

yes, defragging does help, but it's not the world's most important thing either

[Omastar]

Bi-monthly works for me, unless I've just installed a really big program like Office 2007 or Adobe CS3.

[[XC] Lead Head]

usually when O&O reads 10-15% fragementation

[icon57]

diskeeper has a 'set it and forget it' mode that defrags when ever it is needed...
thats what i do.

[adamsleath]

every now and then...:hehe: i must say i dont do it often...but maybe i'll go and check it now....also, if windows says it needs doing i just do it. cant you schedule task it or something?

id say weekly or monthly if your keen.

i reckon the last time i did mine was about 3 months ago...

[Blauhung]

i probably average every 2-3 months, +/- 2-3 months :p:

[StyM]

every quarter.

[DTU_XaVier]

Whenever my computer starts slowing down, and I hear my HDDs start working overtime on simple tasks..

[-thc-(cZ)]

Just to add to this: When id software released Doom 3.. or maybe Quake 4.. one of their main people was like "make sure you defrag BEFORE AND AFTER you install this"..

..so if you have the time, that kinda sounds like it makes sense :) I usually just wanna play the new game, so I do not defrag before and only later on I defrag after

[d44ve]

every few months or so

[MaxxxRacer]

My system is set to auotdefrag when the fragmentation level gets above 2%

[Frisch]

Look at it, like cleaning your room.

The more often you do it, the faster it goes, less stuff to get in order.

[Soulburner]

You guys are crazy.

I hit defrag in Diskeeper 2007 once every few nights. Takes a couple minutes and its done.

Wait a month or two, and you'll be waiting a long time for it to finish.

[NickS]

You guys are crazy.

I hit defrag in Diskeeper 2007 once every few nights. Takes a couple minutes and its done.

Wait a month or two, and you'll be waiting a long time for it to finish.

I love Diskeeper. I run it every friday :)

[Movieman]

app every month-6 weeks..

[adamsleath]

lol i just set mine to run evry2 days at lunchtime...
12:07pm :p: will this wear out my harddrives ??? :lol: maybe i should set it to weekly.

[Colossous]

About every 2/3 weeks here or after loading in big files or progs !

[Frisch]

Actually i should defrag myself, cause i'm a mess.

[Movieman]

Actually i should defrag myself, cause I'm a mess.

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[AliG]

I just downloaded diskeeper 2008, and man, the trial's great! The interface is sooo much nicer than the windows utility, not to mention it does a far faster/better job

[Sparky]

I defrag whenever I remember to. Usually means it might happen 3 times in one week then not get done for over a month since I can never remember if I did it or not :rofl:

[kuhla]

I run windows defrag probably 1-2 times a month depending on how much disk file moving/installing I do.

[jay_lee300]

5x a day dunno why just want it to be best it can 14times on 5 september few times inbetween 5 times on the 5th november

[nauc]

hate the one Vista comes with, things slow and you have no clue when it will be done

what other things can you do to keep your computer running fast. i run a Defender scan, AVG scan and check for Windows Updates at least once a week

go easy on me, this is my first REAL computer :yawn:

and thanks for helpin out yall

[nfm]

I never defrag my disk, I believe it has a very little effect on performance considering the todays fast 7200RPM disks. I makes more sense do defrag a 4200RPM or 5400RPM when using a ntfs filesytems in my opinion, Linux filesystems such as ext3 or xfs do not require defragging.

[GMX]

5x a day dunno why just want it to be best it can 14times on 5 september few times inbetween 5 times on the 5th november

And wear your drive...

[amd4me]

I want a fair trial, which includes a jury full of Turtles.

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[eToh]

Once every six months.:D

[biohead]

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=CMNry4PE93Y&eurl=&iurl=http&#37;3A//img.youtube.com/vi/CMNry4PE93Y/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskISSTXPUHYAvUnoWf9Y1hmR&&rel=1&border=0

[TadehI]

How do I defrag my computer?

[darkone414]

I never defrag my disk, I believe it has a very little effect on performance considering the todays fast 7200RPM disks. I makes more sense do defrag a 4200RPM or 5400RPM when using a ntfs filesytems in my opinion, Linux filesystems such as ext3 or xfs do not require defragging.

I can pretty well vouch for it having almost no effect. I defrag my disks maybe once a year if even that and I have never noticed a performance gain after the defrag. :shrug: I also download and delete large amounts of video files from the disks so it's not like they just sit there not being used.

[One_Hertz]

once a month or so

[YukonTrooper]

Depends on what your doing. If your constantly compiling, editing, programming, installing etc. then I imagine quite a bit. For my needs I do it once a month.

[Polizei]

I do it like once every decade I remember to, but people that actually do it on average do it every other week or so, but don't quote me on it

yes, defragging does help, but it's not the world's most important thing either

Took all the words right out of my mouth. :yepp:


5x a day dunno why just want it to be best it can 14times on 5 september few times inbetween 5 times on the 5th november

That sir, is what we call OCD.

[jay_lee300]

lol i dont mind drives have been fine since i had them only takes a few mins each, hdd are cheap enough these days anyway

[Frisch]

There's an other option, instead of defrag it, you could just frag it, and buy a new.

This is only for the ones with anger problems though.

[adamsleath]

it was a defrag fest :p:

[karbonkid]

i can't defrag - reiserfs :(
it's worth it for its other advantages though...

[KoHaN69]

every time on boot before Windwos, so at least once a day

It only takes less than 20 seconds from regular use and maybe 2-5 minutes if games were installed/uninstalled

O&O FTW

[strange|ife]

i defrag prolly every 3 weeks or so, depends. I dont set a schedule or anything. 2&#37;fragmentation is fine, when its like 15% is when ya need too

and ys linux owns because no need to worry about fragmented files, performance does seem to degrade over time if your just running everyting on / with /home parts. better to run a /boot/tmp/usr/var/swap to reduce performance hit

[lohoutlaw]

Every third week for me as well. Along with the other programs i use to clean here up.

[Frisch]

I wonder how a Billy The Kid PC deFRAGmentation would look like.

[RPGWiZaRD]

I used to do it perhaps once every 1-2 months but now I haven't done it for a year+. lol Maybe it's time, maybe not, seems to run fairly good anyways and loading times ain't bothering me. Since once it caused one of my HDDs to get a few corrupted sectors when comp froze I haven't defragged so often.

Would probably take quite a few hours for me to defrag everything now, wonder if 6 - 8hrs would even be enough. :D

[adamsleath]

now ive started i'm a fragaholic :nuts:
oops i meant defragaholic :slapass:
william h bonney has no time for defragging..he's too busy being a naughty boy.

[\/icious]

Lol i havent defraged in eons so my pc currently sits at 27&#37; total with 54% file. Oops

[khamsin]

I haven't run a defrag or scheduled one, for quite a while now. But my defragmenter is automatic, so it runs in the background (barely any resource usage though) and defrags quietly during idle, if fragmentation has increased. My drives see low or no fragmentation most of the time. I like it better than the old manual/scheduled way because the PC runs it's own maintenance, saving me the trouble. :D

[safan80]

when I feel like it. I use AusLogics Disk Defrag it's better than diskeeper in my book.

[Blauhung]

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awww, they pulled the Zombie turtle kid vid off youtube.

and might I add, way to link 2 totally random threads in here.:up:

[bapan]

Ever since my PC almost screeched to halt due to various drive issues including very high levels of fragmentation and no free space, its prevention is better than cure approach for me. I am right checking out a commercial trialware and planning to set it if its working without any issues.

[Serpentarius]

once in a year .. if the computer specs is high, more than 1gb ram etc .. why bother .. its not noticable unless benchmark

defrag only for servers .. where data fragmentation is humonguous

[eToh]

Once every six months.:D

I meant every six years.:) LOL.. defragging iss pointless.

[darkone414]

I can pretty well vouch for it having almost no effect. I defrag my disks maybe once a year if even that and I have never noticed a performance gain after the defrag. :shrug: I also download and delete large amounts of video files from the disks so it's not like they just sit there not being used.

Just for the hell of it after I made this post I made a note of it to defrag my main drive when I got home and once again I noticed no performance gain. I didn't run any benching programs but just loading video files and games I didn't see any noticeable change in load times. :shrug: Also it has probably been about a year since the last time I ran a defrag.