How Often Disk Defrag
 

How often should you use Disk Defrag? I now have mine set for once a
month. Thanks.

How Often Disk Defrag
 

That should be plenty. I believe windows 7 defrags when necessary if you set
it to do so.
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"Karen F" wrote in message ...

How often should you use Disk Defrag? I now have mine set for once a
month. Thanks.

How Often Disk Defrag
 

On 3/4/12 8:14 AM, Quilljar wrote:
That should be plenty. I believe windows 7 defrags when necessary if you
set it to do so.
Q

"Karen F" wrote in message ...

How often should you use Disk Defrag? I now have mine set for once a
month. Thanks.
I also defrag about once a month.
How do you set Windows 7 to defrag automatically?
Thanks.

How Often Disk Defrag
 

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:14:22 -0000, "Quilljar" wrote:

That should be plenty. I believe windows 7 defrags when necessary if you set
it to do so.
Q

Where do you set W7 to defragment when necessary? It can be run
manually or scheduled to daily, weekly, monthly but that's it so far
as I know.

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How Often Disk Defrag
 

Default setting after installation is found at

Task Scheduler, Task Scheduler Library, Microsoft, Windows, Defrag


On 3/4/2012 7:56 AM, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:14:22 -0000, wrote:

That should be plenty. I believe windows 7 defrags when necessary if you set
it to do so.
Q

Where do you set W7 to defragment when necessary? It can be run
manually or scheduled to daily, weekly, monthly but that's it so far
as I know.

Steve

How Often Disk Defrag
 

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:09:32 -0500, Karen F wrote:

How often should you use Disk Defrag? I now have mine set for once a
month. Thanks.

The stock answer is that it depends on your patterns of disk usage.
But FWIW, since Windows XP was released I have occasionally done a
disk defrag and never, with XP or Win 7, never have I ever seen it
make any improvement.

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On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 09:58:19 -0500, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:09:32 -0500, Karen F wrote:

How often should you use Disk Defrag? I now have mine set for once a
month. Thanks.

The stock answer is that it depends on your patterns of disk usage.
But FWIW, since Windows XP was released I have occasionally done a
disk defrag and never, with XP or Win 7, never have I ever seen it
make any improvement.

Agreed. I've never seen it make a noticeable improvement. My
environment is XP and 7, all on NTFS. My advice is to just skip this
task.

--

Char Jackson

How Often Disk Defrag
 

In message , Char Jackson
writes:
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 09:58:19 -0500, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:09:32 -0500, Karen F wrote:

How often should you use Disk Defrag? I now have mine set for once a
month. Thanks.

The stock answer is that it depends on your patterns of disk usage.
But FWIW, since Windows XP was released I have occasionally done a
disk defrag and never, with XP or Win 7, never have I ever seen it
make any improvement.

Agreed. I've never seen it make a noticeable improvement. My
environment is XP and 7, all on NTFS. My advice is to just skip this
task.

I doubt you'd _often_ see an improvement in _performance_ - perhaps if
playing a large video file that was fragmented into lots of tiny pieces.
I _would_ feel _happier_ with a defragged disc - because I feel a
much-fragmented file is more likely to get corrupted, or cause some
other corruption; I do however concede that this is just a feeling.

One case where it could make a difference is drive wear: which way it
makes the difference will change with usage. If you have a lot of
fragmented files which you read often, then your head will do a lot of
seeking; conversely, if you don't read them often, you'll do a lot of
seeking when doing a defrag which you wouldn't otherwise.

(To answer the subject question: I very rarely defrag., usually when I
see a post about a different defragger which someone says is better and
I try it! Can't say I've noticed any improvement, though I _feel_ better
about it - feel the system is likely to be more _reliable_.[And yes I
know that doing the defrag. itself is in theory capable of damaging.])
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How Often Disk Defrag
 

On 04/03/2012 16:34, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Char Jackson
writes:
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 09:58:19 -0500, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:09:32 -0500, Karen F wrote:

How often should you use Disk Defrag? I now have mine set for once a
month. Thanks.

The stock answer is that it depends on your patterns of disk usage.
But FWIW, since Windows XP was released I have occasionally done a
disk defrag and never, with XP or Win 7, never have I ever seen it
make any improvement.

Agreed. I've never seen it make a noticeable improvement. My
environment is XP and 7, all on NTFS. My advice is to just skip this
task.

I doubt you'd _often_ see an improvement in _performance_ - perhaps if
playing a large video file that was fragmented into lots of tiny pieces.
I _would_ feel _happier_ with a defragged disc - because I feel a
much-fragmented file is more likely to get corrupted, or cause some
other corruption; I do however concede that this is just a feeling.

One case where it could make a difference is drive wear: which way it

I was going to say!
-- choro

makes the difference will change with usage. If you have a lot of
fragmented files which you read often, then your head will do a lot of
seeking; conversely, if you don't read them often, you'll do a lot of
seeking when doing a defrag which you wouldn't otherwise.

(To answer the subject question: I very rarely defrag., usually when I
see a post about a different defragger which someone says is better and
I try it! Can't say I've noticed any improvement, though I _feel_ better
about it - feel the system is likely to be more _reliable_.[And yes I
know that doing the defrag. itself is in theory capable of damaging.])

How Often Disk Defrag
 

On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:09:32 -0500, Karen F wrote:

How often should you use Disk Defrag? I now have mine set for once a
month. Thanks.

Only when it needs it. And not before. Anymore is a waste of time.

There are XP user desktops that I service several times a year. (And fix
when they "break" more frequently.) The systems are used in a business:
small and large files created, downloaded, uploaded, saved, copied, moved
around, deleted, etc. Probably, more use in a month or two than an
average single user would in year. On average, they only NEED defragging
about every 3 months or so.

Stef

How Often Disk Defrag
 

Jeff wrote:

How do you set Windows 7 to defrag automatically?

http://www.mydefrag.com/FAQDownloadA...Defragger.html

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On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 15:20:06 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

Jeff wrote:

How do you set Windows 7 to defrag automatically?

http://www.mydefrag.com/FAQDownloadA...Defragger.html

Thanks for the advertisement, but what does it have to do with Jeff's
question.

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How Often Disk Defrag
 

Stan Brown wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Jeff wrote:

How do you set Windows 7 to defrag automatically?

http://www.mydefrag.com/FAQDownloadA...Defragger.html

Thanks for the advertisement, but what does it have to do with Jeff's
question.

What did Jeff ask? What does the article say?

So if someone tells you where is the wall switch to turn off the room
lights, you can't figure out it's the same wall switch to turn them on?

How Often Disk Defrag
 

Speaking of disk defragging in Windows 7. Is the internal the best one
to use or is there a better third party (freeware preferred) to use?

Thank you in advance. :)
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Ant wrote:
Speaking of disk defragging in Windows 7. Is the internal the best one
to use or is there a better third party (freeware preferred) to use?

Thank you in advance. :)

The built-in defragmenter, defragments any file smaller than 50MB in size.
It won't defragment files larger than that.

Consequently, if you're a dyed-in-the-wool defragmenter type person,
you'll want *any* third party defragmenter, rather than the built-in one.
The built-in one solves a pragmatic problem, of only defragmenting
the files that need it. Whereas the third party defragmenter, will
make your drive look "pretty" (in the on-screen map). And that's worth
an extra $39.95.

Paul