Windows XP: POLL - How Often Do You Defragment and Why??
At least every week
by Themisive - 8/9/06 11:17 AM In reply to: RE: How often I defrag by DaviddudeOr more often if I am doing a lot of loading of files and programmes, I find it does decrease seek time considerably.
How often do I defrag?
by jfordorl - 8/11/06 5:30 AM In reply to: RE: How often I defrag by DaviddudeWith todays faster CPU's, larger RAM and HD's I find it is not as necessary as the old days. However, since I copy a lot of video tapes over to DVD these days, I do defrag every couple of conversions. Video goes faster when you have a realatively clean HD. ps - I agree that Check Disk and Defrag compliment one another and usually do both at the same session.
Defrag
by w002rlp - 8/11/06 4:06 AM In reply to: POLL - How Often Do You Defragment and Why?? by Trance_ZacI try to run all utilities weekly or biweekly to assure a clean and efficiently running computer.
All depends on the use of your computer.
by thegame102 - 8/11/06 4:43 AM In reply to: Defrag by w002rlpFrom http://www.diskeeper.com/. Disk fragmentation causes crashes, slowdowns, freeze-ups and even total system failures. The number one reason for performance bottlenecks is fragmentation. Even the best hardware will eventually slow down unless the drive is defragmented daily.
From Perfectdisk help file,
What is Fragmentation?
Disk fragmentation occurs when files are broken into hundreds or even thousands of pieces and scattered across your hard drive. This occurs naturally whenever files get created, deleted, or extended and even when the operating system is first installed. Even if you have plenty of free space, Windows will still fragment files and before you know it, your once fast system starts to slow down. Microsoft recognizes fragmentation as a problem and recommends defragmenting your drives regularly.
Fragmentations effect on your computer
File fragmentation causes a huge degradation in system performance, and over time can bring your system to a near crawl. Fragmentation causes your computer to use excessive resources (memory and CPU time) to complete tasks related to reading and writing files. This unnecessarily increases the work your computer must do to support the applications you are running. In cases of severe fragmentation, some applications may not run at all. Fragmentation can cause applications to launch more slowly, file access to take longer, system boot/shut down to slow, videos to drop frames and music to skip.
As a owner of a third party defragger mine is set automatically to run everyday this keeps it at top performance.
Good post!
by abstraqts - 8/11/06 7:29 AM In reply to: All depends on the use of your computer. by thegame102Now that post justifies me defragging my hard drive every day or every other day! So I'm not crazy after all!
Whoa there!
by MarkFlax
- 8/11/06 9:19 AM
In reply to: Good post! by abstraqts
You could reconsider what was said in that post.
Bear in mind that both Diskeeper and PerfectDisk are disk defragmenting utilities. They are not likely to say that you shouldn't defrag your disk often are they?
If you want justification for your own decision to defrag daily, you may be better seeking independant expert technical views.
Just a thought.
Mark
re: Whoa There!
by beepster - 8/11/06 10:08 AM In reply to: Whoa there! by MarkFlax
Now isn't that kinda like auto makers saying ya need gas/diesel to run you auto?? Sure, they're trying to sell their cars, just like defragger companies.
I defrag when the notion hits me, ie, system starts slowing down and applications harder to open. I don't happen to be a nurdie-burdie, so I kinda do as I see fit, and not necessarily as someone suggests UNLESS it is really plausible to me. Incidentally, I'm running 2000 Pro.
Probably not enough but do it few times a week.
by jprkenny - 8/11/06 4:38 AM In reply to: POLL - How Often Do You Defragment and Why?? by Trance_ZacA few times a week which only when necessary but what would cause your computer to be that fragmented but each time I do it, only a small amount of my hard drive is fragmented, it would be convenient to have one that automatically defrags for you that where Windows Vista comes in it will have auto disk defrag.
Yet while some people use their computers so much that they forget to defrag a little defragging won’t kill you and we all know the benefits of defragging faster computer, more organised, easier to work with I guess.
When XP tells me to.
by Brianstech - 8/11/06 5:05 AM In reply to: POLL - How Often Do You Defragment and Why?? by Trance_ZacOnce every couple of weeks I open Defrag. I then click "Analyze", where it will say whether or not it is needed.
Am I the only one?
NO
by Themisive - 8/11/06 6:13 AM In reply to: When XP tells me to. by BrianstechI used to analyse the contents of the disks, but that is often not necessary, as I only defrag around once a week - now and again twice weekly if I am loading and unloading many files - Diskeeper 10 (which I use) does give you the analysis of the disk as it works and you always have the option to stop the defrag session if need be.
never done defrag
by burninwolf - 8/11/06 6:17 AM In reply to: NO by ThemisiveMy boss has been looking at this topic with me and he has had his machine for bout 4 months now and has not done one defrag i do a defrag every 2 weeks and his machine is still faster than mine!!!! (with pretty much the same spec pcs!!!!)
not what defrag is for
by gsman11 - 8/11/06 6:50 AM In reply to: never done defrag by burninwolfDefragging a drive regularly is not going to speed up the whole computer. It will speed up hard disk read write times (slightly depending on how bad the defrag was needed).
Also, you should really use a third party utility so that you can defrag locked system files as well (like the pagefile). The built in windows defrag program doesn’t have these capabilities. Defragging the whole disk, system files included is going to give you the biggest improvement (and even then it might be a small improvement).
Btw for the poll, my system does it automatically once a week around 4am so I’m never interrupted by it but I still get the benefits.
i defrag when i feel it is necessary
by maggiedev - 8/11/06 6:16 AM In reply to: When XP tells me to. by Brianstechi take literally hundreds and hundreds of photographs per month. after i fill a folder or several folders with enough to burn to a full disk, i burn, delete and then defrag. i was not defraging very often and my computer slowed down. part of the advice i received from my service tech was to defrag after deleting a lot of files. since then i have done it on a regular basis and have had no more slow downs. i cannot tell you why, i just know it helped. i have followed this practice on both my p.c. and my laptop.
defrag constantly
by jeepster - 8/11/06 6:24 AM In reply to: POLL - How Often Do You Defragment and Why?? by Trance_ZacI us ashampoo's magic defrag. Set it and forget it.
Defrag Frequency
by Ron Geiken - 8/11/06 6:39 AM In reply to: POLL - How Often Do You Defragment and Why?? by Trance_ZacI have my computer with Diskeeper 9 set to defrag when the screen saver mode is on. I also defrag every night just before I turn the computer off. It only takes a minute or so to do this. I also like to defrag if I have removed a significant number of files or installed new software. I just wish my "paper" filing cabinet was a well organized as my computer!!!
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