De-fragging

**dullbird** · 9th January 2011, 03:33 PM

Do people still de-frag their computers to keep them tidy or is that soooooo 1990's

**kaa45** · 9th January 2011, 03:39 PM

Usually change computers before that's needed

Boxhead63 · 9th January 2011, 03:40 PM

I have an empty out at least once a week.

Rob

**Mick_Marsh** · 9th January 2011, 04:04 PM

It's very microsoft.
Does it actually make a difference?

**bee utey** · 9th January 2011, 04:12 PM

About every 6 months for me, only if the comp is starting to hang up and drive me nuts. If it's going fine I don't usually worry about it. I only use the thing for web browsing, which doesn't tax it much.

**Narangga** · 9th January 2011, 04:22 PM

Usually every 3 months or so after a clean out and registry clean up.

We actually did not own a computer in the 1990s.

**dmdigital** · 9th January 2011, 05:47 PM

The firmware, cache, capacity and seek, read, write speeds of modern drives makes this less of an issue than before.

**JDNSW** · 9th January 2011, 07:24 PM

I don't use Windows, so it is not needed.

John

mikehzz · 9th January 2011, 07:49 PM

File fragmentation occurs no matter what the operating system. There are Mac and Linux defrag utilities available. Fragmented files will always be read slower than unfragmented ones. As stated before, the speed of newer hard drives makes it less noticeable.