How Often Disk Defrag
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.
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Char Jackson
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