Defragment

[Fuze]

How often do you defragment? or what is the recommended time to defragment your hard drive?

[doctorgonzo]

I defrag my Windows partition every week, though I probably don't need to do it that often. Because the data on my other partitions don't change as much (my mp3s, games, etc.) I defrag them only when necessary.

I use the Task Scheduler to do it automatically so I don't have to think about it. That's probably the best method.

[Fuze]

Yeah, my friend said he tried to do that but it only opened the defrag program and didn't actually defragment it.

[newme]

i use a batch file to defrag with the task schedular or you can use a third party program,and there are a few good ones

[doctorgonzo]

Like newme said, you have to use a batch file to get it to work. But it only has to be one line. The good thing about using a batch file is that you can redirect the output to a text file to review later.

[Tuf]

I use Diskeeper and have it set to defrag every night. Sometimes during the day if I'm on the phone and bored I'll do my C drive. If you do it often enough it won't take thirty seconds.

[doctorgonzo]

Here is the one-line batch file I use:

defrag c: -v >defrag1.txt

Nothing could be simpler. Last run, only 300 files were fragmented.