Defrag- How often?

Hello there srganesh! There are some good defragmenting software that can be installed to do background defragmentation. I was using Diskeeper but I recently switched to PerfectDisk because it is free and lightweight. PerfectDisk allows me to defrag even while I am working on my PC. So far, I had been running this software for weeks and got no problems with it. I don't have to schedule all that defragmenting work because it defragments the hard disk only at times when it is necessary.

I know a person who does it daily, but I only do it when I feel my computer is running slow and I and trying everything to make it go faster. My friend says I should do it all the time to always have full performance, but I just forget about it because it is running fine. I think it is a good idea to clean up the disc more often though. I will do a disc clean up more often than a defragmentation.

I didn't defrag for like 2 years now. The problem is that I need to have at least 15% free space on disk but I always have just 1-2% :) But PC is still running pretty good.

I re-install my Windows 5 or 6 times a year, and I think I defrag at least once a month. My dinosaur really needs it (I still have an AGP motherboard).

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.

When I using windows, I reinstall OS 2-3 times once a year, and don't do defrag at all. When I using Linux, I re install OS one time one year, no need to defrag.

I'm in one of those areas of florida that's 5 years behind the rest of the world so i defrag every 3-4 months,i need to do anything to speed my laptop up.Can't hurt right ?

I defrag about once a month. I use quite a lot of space-consuming software, and I'm frequently deleting things so it leaves fragments on the computer. I should probably defrag more often, but it takes so long to do on this computer that I have to leave it on overnight.

I use an awesome automatic defragmenter called Diskeeper 2008 professional. It defragments automatically in the background when it is necessary, without interfering with any other application. This means that I don't ever have to worry about defragging:D The frequency of defrag depends on your usage patterns. The interesting thing is the more regularly you defrag, you notice less of an*improvement* from each defrag. This because with frequent defrag, there is no fragmentation build up, and hence no performance degradation, so the system always runs smoothly.

I do it, when i feel tat my computer is slow or need to remove some unwanted junk in my harddisk. I think i will do it once in 6months. I dont think defragment helps us , does some job. but not satified with it

every friday it is neccessary to keep a defragged drive

Hi, I used to defrag my computer once in 15 days. Because when was going through a computer magazine, i found our computer should be defragged once in 15 days. Before that i was using defrag once in 3 months.. I use a software to defrag the computer.