optran

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India • Age 47

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How often do you defrag your computer?

clorissa123 @clorissa123 (4926) • United States 18 Jun 09

Someone suggested me to defrag my computer once in a month. This will bring more space to my hard drive, since there were many bad bytes with files or media components I save in my hard drive. So, I also want to know if I do the...

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optran Defrag doesnt bring more space, a diskcleanup will help you free up HDD space. A diskdefragger only puts fragmented files back together to speed up data access. Since the HDD is otherwise the slowest component in the data chain, its important to defrag...

19 Jun 09

Defrag- How often?

srganesh @srganesh (6339) • India 30 Nov 08

Do you defrag your computer at regular intervals?Monthly once or yearly once?Or you just defrag when you feel your computer to be slower than normal?Is it necessary to defrag at regular intervals or when it needs to be?

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optran I have automated the process by installing Diskeeper on the job. It defrags silently without causing resource conflict, in the background. Also defrags the MFT, defrags even if the drive has less than 15% free space and has a great GUI.

1 Dec 08

defragment

skullgang @skullgang (29) • United States 13 Jul 08

hey. can anyone help me to defragment my laptop. i do not know how to access that. so if anyone knows how to please help me out. the only thing i do know is that i believe you have to go through the control panel but i do now know...

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optran Vista is scheduled to defrag at particular intervals in the background, and i doubt if there is any way you can figure out the progress of the defrag as it lacks a visual display as in XP.I've switched to an automatic defragmenter that runs in the background...

15 Jul 08