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16 | 41.03% |
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2 | 5.13% |
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6 | 15.38% |
| Once every month |
  
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15 | 38.46% |
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08-19-2004, 01:38 PM
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How often do you defrag?
How often does everyone defrag? I defrag at least every 10 days or so. What about everyone else?
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08-19-2004, 01:41 PM
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PCMech: Saving Lives
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: England, the United Kingdom
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At any excuse I leave the computer on overnight to fold. I run defrag or a virus scan so my Mum thinks it's doing something that helps the computer.
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08-19-2004, 01:51 PM
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Oh boy, I've only defragged once on this laptop in three years a few weeks ago. I sparsely defrag...I'll vote once a month, but realistically once an year which I should change.
kram
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08-19-2004, 01:56 PM
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I run my list of maintenace programs weekly on 6 systems. Adaware, Spybot, AVG scan, Disk Cleanup (including deleting old Restore Points), Registry Healer, Delete Cookies, and Defrag.
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08-19-2004, 02:03 PM
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Certified Audio Nut
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Washington State
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I defrag only once in a while. My computer always runs fine. I run Spybot and Adaware once in a while too. I rarely run a virus scan unless I suspect a virus. I delete the MIE2 browser cache once in a while too. I never run disk cleanup for some reason.
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08-19-2004, 02:28 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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I dont defrag, I dont see any boost
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08-19-2004, 02:34 PM
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Member (14 bit)
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I defrag a couple times a week. Always when I'm bored .. so it can be a few times a day some days.
I'll never let it fragment again the way it once was. RJ
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08-19-2004, 02:58 PM
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Member (7 bit)
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Tac-Town, WA
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I don't defrag very often, just did last night, but it's been a long time. I never see a performance increase after it's been defragged, even if it's been 3-5 months, so it's not that important to me, I do it just cuz. I don't think is as effective as many make it out to be.
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08-19-2004, 03:08 PM
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PCMech: Saving Lives
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: England, the United Kingdom
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I have to say I saw a performance increase after I defraged it for the first time (after 4 years of heavy use, the bar was almost completly red.)
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08-19-2004, 03:14 PM
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Its the Dark Side!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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I defrag regularly. I never really see a DRASTIC performace increase. for me, it just mainly gives me peace of mind that my files are less scattered all over the HDD.
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08-19-2004, 03:23 PM
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I try to defrag monthly, but it's more like every 4 months or so, since I usually have my computer doing something or other.
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08-19-2004, 06:04 PM
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Member (10 bit)
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Belgium
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I defrag whenever the computer in question has seriously slowed down due to the heavy fragmentation. Just did it today in fact, and it made a huge difference. I sometimes see people claiming that NTFS doesn't need to be defragged, I have no idea where they get that idea, it's just as susceptible as FAT32 to fragmentation.
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08-19-2004, 06:20 PM
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Folding For PCMech
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: San Dimas, CA
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I try to defrag once or twice a month. Often times it's a couple of months in between defrags.
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08-19-2004, 06:46 PM
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Member (9 bit)
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Dixon, Illinois
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I generally defrag once a week. Usually on Thursday nights. I have a regular routine that I do, Update my AV, run Ad-Aware and Spybot, Clear the temp files, delete cookies, and then run the defrag. I don't notice that much of an improvement in performance, but since I tend to take lots of pictures and download game demos and such, my HDD tends to get a bit cluttered. It's mainly for piece of mind on my part I think more than an actual performance booster.
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08-19-2004, 06:47 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: LIVERPOOL U.K.
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Twice a month usually. sometimes in safe mode too !!
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08-19-2004, 08:22 PM
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Member (10 bit)
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Toronto
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I have Diskeeper set to defrag whenever the screensaver is on, but really, it only does it about twice a week. That way, i dont have to worry about it and it doesnt bother me while im working.
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08-19-2004, 08:24 PM
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Member (6 bit)
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Houston TX
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it really depends, some time every week, il put it to defrag during my hw,
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08-19-2004, 09:55 PM
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Member (8 bit)
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: La Jolla, CA
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I defrag every few days on no particular schedule. Diskeeper Lite just tells me that there are an excess of frags and then I press the defrag now button. It only takes five minutes at the most, especially if its done regularly so, I just do what the computer wants me to.
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08-20-2004, 01:03 AM
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Member (6 bit)
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Location: West Coast Michigan, USA
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Hey how come it only says up to "once every month"?
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08-20-2004, 01:05 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: MO
Posts: 1,478
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I defrag every 24 hours.
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08-20-2004, 08:00 AM
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Member (12 bit)
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Oklahoma
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I have Diskeeper running on my network all the time. Theoretically every drive is defragged at least once per day. My notebooks get defragged before I put them up after returning home from a trip.
Basically I think it depends on how you use your computer. If all you do is surf the web its probably not necessary very often. If you generate large files often and move them on and off the drives or burn lots of discs I think you should do it regualrly. |
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08-20-2004, 09:25 AM
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Member (9 bit)
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kentucky
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I run checkdisk and defrag once a week as well as easyclean registery cleaner,along with spybot and ad aware,and of course I also clean out my temp files and cookies weekly also.My system seems to run very well and very very few problems.
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08-20-2004, 11:29 AM
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Member (9 bit)
Join Date: Nov 2002
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I defrag right after erasing ripped DVD files, when they are already burned.
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08-20-2004, 11:45 AM
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Member (11 bit)
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Never, I have journaling enabled in OS X which supposedly keeps things clean and organized.
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08-20-2004, 12:24 PM
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Lest we forget
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
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mine defrags every day at 3:20AM.
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08-20-2004, 12:46 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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I defrag my computers once a week or right before I burn anything from the hard drive.
If you're running WinNt, Win2000 or WinXP you might not see any improvement in performance after a defrag because of the way the NTFS system works...but if you have any of the Win9x variants, you should defrag regularly. A heavily fragmented Win9x hard drive will really slow things down. Cricket
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08-20-2004, 02:53 PM
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Member (12 bit)
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: San Francisco
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Every time the screensaver comes on.
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08-20-2004, 06:33 PM
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Supergeek in training
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My mum has never defragged her computer ever since the day she bought it, and she's had it for well over 3 months now at least lol. |
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08-20-2004, 06:58 PM
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Location: Belgium
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(always wanted to use that expression sometime)In practice NTFS systems will get just as easily fragmented as FAT32, in fact it can even get worse since the MFT (Master File Table, the equivalent of the File Allocation Table) can also get fragmented, which the FAT on FAT32 cannot. |
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08-21-2004, 09:04 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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I didn't say a NTFS hard drive won't get fragmented, I said it doesn't seem to lose performance like a Win9x hard drive does...although I don't quite know why that is.
Cricket
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