How often do you defag your windows OS?
 

I turned off the schedule because it always starts while I'm working.

Once a week? once a month?

Go back to Computers 101 newbie.

Windows 7 and Vista defrag automatically in the background, you don't have to schedule or do it manually.

I thought Winows got away from that silliness like fifteen years ago? Wasn't that some Windows 3.1 shit leftover from DOS? Still doing that, eh? Does the browser still crash the whole damn OS because of some HTML it doesn't like or whatever? I know IE still needs HTTP 1.0 because it doesn't handle Accept right, but I thought they fixed SOME of that garbage.

anytime you have files on a hard drive, over time the indexing gets a little messed up, from reading, writing, etc. defrag is good about once a year maybe, to re-index your hd for a little better performance. It's good if you dont have a high end computer.

defag? I defagged my computer by putting freebsd on it :) Just once is enough LOL

Some of it, but I just ran it on one of my windows vista laptops and it took over three hours to finish. I would think this means it wasn't doing it before.

The vista I think does do this though it finished in about 5 minutes.

I miss these old utilities, I hate how it's running crap when I need the power for what I'm working on.

Meant defrag obviously BTW. lol

Some of it, but I just ran it on one of my windows vista laptops and it took over three hours to finish. I would think this means it wasn't doing it before.

The vista I think does do this though it finished in about 5 minutes.

I miss these old utilities, I hate how it's running crap when I need the power for what I'm working on.

Yeah I love Linux which is similar but I have Windows on my pc's and have no idea how to make this crap run smooth even on a high end new laptop.

hate windows.

I'm running Vista. Haven't giving defrag a lot of thought. Seems I have it set up to do it once a week. Last time was six days ago.

The best operating system on Earth.

SSD drive for the system OS for the win.

Never, this isn't 1998 anymore. And if you're using ssds you'll actually do more bad than good by defragging.

that's the right answer

If you're using DOS or minix. Serious operating systems have serious filesystems, which are smart about where they put blocks. Rémy Card figured out the algorithm to avoid fragmentation before he released the ext filesystem in 1992.

Seriously, that's a problem that was solved twenty years ago.

maybe once a year

I am running Mac OSx, so defragging is not needed, but I still re-install the OS once a year to keep everything fresh and running smoothly.

It was designed to "cope" with file fragmentation, you have a system running long enough and it's going to have some fragmentation and ext4 was supposed to support online defragmentation.

my computers are always fag free

yes, yes, we got it... :winkwink:

windows is bad and we are all idiots for using it

and i havent defragged anything since years and my computer runs as smooth as on day one.

Yeah, I try to at least once a year.

The trick to this is having a huge flash drive, I got 16 gigs so almost everything important can be on there and a new install just means adding software and a couple tweaks.

Until you touch them.


POW! BOOM! ZING!

This pc I do it once a week since it's still running XP no need for anything else on it,

I picked up a rig at office max I think it was with win 7 bout 6 months ago and havent fraged it yet.

Once a month

defag = clean out the gay porn on your computer? Freudian slip? :)

the correct answer is never stop defragging.... EVER.

I dont do it anymore...

no need for defrag. read all the tests. Better delete all empty files like .tmp

I've read on most video forums / sites that it's good to defrag if you work with video a lot. No idea if that is true, but I defrag in the background once a week (Windows 7). My machines usually run really, really smooth unless I update something.

:thumbsup

NTFS does have auto defragmentation features
Besides that one should never defrag a SSD drive

I host my site with you and you need to ask this?!

Just kidding of course. Sites run like a dream.

lol :1orglaugh

i was waiting for a post like this :1orglaugh

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My question was whether IE still takes the whole OS or desktop with it. In Seamonkey, you can crash one tab in the browser. In Firefox, you can crash the browser. The last I knew, a long time ago, an IE crash took out the whole desktop. Does it still do that? I haven't used Windows regularly for about fifteen years.

you can put fag on the end of anything you have to do with windows .........

lol I know it's simple and does it still help, who knows. Now that's I checked a little I see a ton of back and fourth opinions. I think I'll run it a couple times a year just in case it does help still. Just trying to get a kind of old vista laptop going good for my niece.

I bought an SSD so I could stop the constant defagging.