Reader Question: How often should I defragment my hard drive?
November 18th, 2007A lot of people are not sure how often they’re supposed to do routine maintenance on their computers. One of these tasks that can improve the speed of your computer is called defragmenting. This is something you do to your hard-drive and it basically re-arranges pieces of files scattered about your hard drive into one central location so they’ll be faster to load.
I recommend running the Windows Disk Deframenter tool about once a week. It probably doesn’t need to be run that often, but this will ensure that your drive is running as efficiently as possible.
Click on the image below to learn how to run the Windows Disk Deframenter.
November 19th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I tend to think of a badly fragmented and cluttered drive as a messy closet or desk where it takes double the time to find anything. In terms of its silent and prolific growth its like a disease which starts off harmlessly to aggaravte into serious problems like freezes, slowdowns and potential disk crashes.