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I'd already decided to defrag the system and just get through it.

No one wants to defrag their disk while they're trying to use the computer actively.

Why bother to defrag a drive if you don't need to?

Heavy users should defrag their flash drives once a week or every few days.

In the installation instructions it instructs you to defrag your drive.

When that is what you have, close the window, then defrag your hard drive and restart the PC.

Will we need to defrag them?

So we defrag our drives, which makes the files contiguous and packs them down at the front of the disk for maximum speed.

Then I defrag it.

Do you need to defrag your Mac HD?

They scan the computer, show false hardware issues, and present a remedy to defrag the hard drives and fine-tune the system performance.

So, for example, there's no need to defrag them because... LEO: Oh, interesting, really.

But I wouldn't want to sell my little quickie benchmark of just seeing how long it takes to defrag a drive as being extensive, real-world performance.

My advice with SSDs and defragging is maybe to just defrag it once.

The more you use it, and the more data you have on it, the more often you should defrag it."

It will do something that Vopt won抰, which is it will defrag the so-called metadata.

I get rid of everything I can first, then I defrag it, then I make an image, and then I feel good.

But by 'tech savvy' we meant their ability to use computer tools for innovation, creation and problem solving, not their ability to defrag a hard drive or rip a CD".

To the Editor: To avoid problems when you defrag your hard disk, which was mentioned in the Q & A column on July 6, you need to close some windows first.

Although Windows comes with a defragger, it's slow, doesn't defrag large files and system files, is not customizable, etc etc, so a decent third party utility might be a good option.

And PerfectDisk is able to defrag the files that are in use, that is, the page table, hibernation file, directories, basically the system things that normal defragging won't do.

As I did mention in our SteadyState podcast, when you are going to install SteadyState, Windows asks you to defrag the drive, to bring as much unused space into one large, contiguous block.

The result, however, is that Disk Defragmenter does not require a certain amount of free space in order to successfully defrag a volume, unlike performing a full defragmentation which requires at least 15% of free space on the volume.

And I found a command line timer program, it was part of a Windows Resource Kit called EndTimer, that allowed me to time the execution of Vopt running from a command line to defrag this very fragmented system.

Combined usage of the -s parameter and the wildcard symbol * allows whole directories and drives to be defragmented: for example, will defrag all the files on hard drive C. The -s parameters means to browse directories recursively.