How often do you defrag ? - Page 2

poolking · 22-06-2003, 10:10

Once in a blue moon.

musey · 22-06-2003, 10:33

Once a month.

Morpheus · 22-06-2003, 10:36

mine is fat32 and the other is NTFS and they are both done once a week....

Ramrod · 22-06-2003, 10:37

Quote:

Originally posted by Chimaera
Cheers everyone! Something else I didn't realise I had to do with my PC (only got it in Feb this year).
*rolls sleeves up* so where do I start?

lol

I 'do' mine weekly

bo-peep · 22-06-2003, 10:45

once every six to eight weeks.do it manually and never get rounds to doing anything i should

22-06-2003, 11:19

I try & remember to scan for spyware/trojans daily, virus scan every time it's updated, defrag probably once a month.

Gaz

bo-peep · 22-06-2003, 11:23

i do the spyware bit all the time.have to cos of my son.take yesterday for example ( and he never sets a restore point) he downloaded some mp3 to wav program BUT says yes to the rest of the rubbish.so we have bargain buddy ( like bonzai buddy) and god knows wot else.jv power tools only removes so much as well.i still have summat in the registry and in the _restore folder.it's a full time job checking for updates for the hundreds of programs one uses

Stuart W · 22-06-2003, 11:24

I defrag my FAT32drives once a week (auto) NTFS drives once a month (auto)

All the other drives are ext3, which I havn't defraged in over a year, but they are still 99% contiguous (or however you spell the damn word!)

distortal · 22-06-2003, 12:18

Approx. once a month here, unless I've been installing/uninstalling software (as I did recently with various Virus checkers) and I *know* the HD is going to be be a bit fragged. I consider that a special occasion.

Karl · 22-06-2003, 12:20

Quote:

Originally posted by Chimaera
Cheers everyone! Something else I didn't realise I had to do with my PC (only got it in Feb this year).
*rolls sleeves up* so where do I start?

FAQ : Defrag- The Easy Way
http://66.246.16.46/faq/faq_defrag.htm

Alan Waddington · 22-06-2003, 12:44

About every 6 months. I just checked & the disk was more fragmented than expected. I think it must be all those XP security updates. Must check more often.

So it's just been defragged.

Chimaera · 22-06-2003, 12:51

Quote:

Originally posted by Karl
FAQ : Defrag- The Easy Way
http://66.246.16.46/faq/faq_defrag.htm

Thanks Karl!

*puts away Mr Sheen and hides Marigold gloves*

ronald146m · 22-06-2003, 12:59

Hello

I agree with the method suggested in karl's link.

Safe mode is the solution.

Ron

bo-peep · 22-06-2003, 13:04

i've always ctrl/alt/deleted and shut down everything with no problem.scandisk then defrag

but defrag once every 6 months??

poolking · 22-06-2003, 13:06

Has anyone seen that site where they rip open and old hard drive and start cleaning it with toothpaste in order to format it.

I think it was toothpaste they were using. I was just wondering if anyone actually fell for it?