Is there a difference between defragging and runing Disk Cleanup?
Anyway, last week I got fed up with my computer running in slooooowwwww moootttiiiooooonnnn, and I made a note of the amount of free space I had on the hard drive (in kb), ran Disk Cleanup, checked again, and I had less free space than I did before! How is that possible?
Anyway, it turns out my slow motion problem was due to the anti virus service I was using and when I switched, everything perked right up.
I'm in the process of taking files off my hard drive and putting them on a flash to sort out because I have some files that are too similiar and I want to combine them to make them more useful, and whenever I have a significant reduction in free space I'll do a Disk Cleanup again, but other than these recent events I go years without thinking about it. Maybe it's because I have a lot of files, but they're all pretty small, they don't really fragment?