How Often Do You Defrag?

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  1. Sly.

    Sly. Well-Known Member

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    I don't know if this has been done recently...but oh well :)

    I defrag about once every three months lol. I'm interested to see what you guys do.
     
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    at least once a week, unless i have dled/or moved a lot of ---- around.
     
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    I never did a defrag.. :blink: I never have enough time to.
     
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    i have my OS set to defrag when I'm idle, so pretty much...

    24/7
     
  5. chrono

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    Well your supposed to defrag atleast once a week, so thats what I do
     
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    Yea I try to defrag atleast once a week.
     
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    Wow, I didn't know that. I defrag once a month. Guess I'll have to do some more defragging...
     
  8. xlink

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    you're supposed to degfrag once a week on FAT32 partitions, but NTFS doesn't really get that fragmented, you could probably put it off to once every 6 months to be honest.
     
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    Defragging is a waste of time in my eyes :)

    Nothing i cant do by hand if it needs doing

    Arbiter
     
  10. oasis420

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    i loled at that comment.
     
  11. Hadouken

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    I just did one..Didn't see much of a difference..Am I supposed to reboot? lol
     
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    I've never done it, never had the time really :P
     
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    Ive only defraged aout 2 times and not on this computer theres no need to because every 3-4 i reformat so its a waste of time to defrag
     
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    not as much as i should do
     
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    You must find enjoyment out of reinstalling drivers, and backing up. :lol:
     

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