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System drive frag files - % - your average?
« on: September 14, 2008, 08:07:46 PM »
Just the system drive here - interested to know what y'all regard as your best average with regular maintenance?  I still maintain - even with my XP Pro - Windows as ever makes a mess! 

Since commissioning my HP4600 a good several weeks ago now - I have assiduously defragged (O&O Defrag) ...... and starting at about 5% get back to 0.5% - always just four frag files that won't get corrected!

I don't remember managing to keep it this low on last machine but - interested to know what folks regard as best they can achieve with regular defragging. 

A vote will do - oh - hang on - where's the poll option?  Hmmm - no can find!.

OK - base line let's say 5% or less ...... then 10%, 20% etc.  Pure curiosity!
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Re: System drive frag files - % - your average?
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2008, 08:14:04 PM »
Steady 5% or less here as i do it weekly...
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Different apps will report different #'s as far as efficiency...plus you have to account for the pagefile and restore points...
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    Re: System drive frag files - % - your average?
    « Reply #2 on: September 14, 2008, 09:33:12 PM »
    I only defrag occasionally and don't keep track of fragmentation - I also defrag the pagefile periodically. A good utility is here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx.

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    Re: System drive frag files - % - your average?
    « Reply #3 on: September 14, 2008, 10:07:35 PM »
    that's kind of odd- I've only defragmented once since I got this computer about 3 or 4 monthes ago, and It's on almost all the time... system drive fragmentation is only 1%...
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