June poll - When was the last time you defragged your hard drive?

[Starwind51]

Disk Cleanup just deletes temporary files, Windows log files and etc, where Defragmenter moves the files physically on the hard drive to make them faster to access.

And if you only have a few hundred KB of free space then no wonder you are in slow-mo.
Your hard drive has allocated space for the Virtual Memory(A backup for your Physical RAM), as well as allocated space by other programs and Windows itself for necessary operations.

I had more than a few hundred KB, and once I switched from the CA (Computer Associates) antivirus, etc. that Road Runner provides to Microsoft Security Essentials it's been like night and day - my computer has the speeds I expect from it.

So, if Disk Cleanup, isn't a defragger, how do I defrag?

[BC_Programmer]

I had more than a few hundred KB, and once I switched from the CA (Computer Associates) antivirus, etc. that Road Runner provides to Microsoft Security Essentials it's been like night and day - my computer has the speeds I expect from it.

So, if Disk Cleanup, isn't a defragger, how do I defrag?

you run the defragmenter.

I think it's in Start->All Programs->Accessories->System tools, but I'm not sure. you can start it with Start->Run "Defrag.msc" though.

[Starwind51]

you run the defragmenter.

I think it's in Start->All Programs->Accessories->System tools, but I'm not sure. you can start it with Start->Run "Defrag.msc" though.

Ok!  Thanks - I looked where you said and found it.

[hopebride]

hey
just this month
so useful
get rid of dark spaces!!!!!!

[overthehill]

hey
just this month
so useful
get rid of dark spaces!!!!!!

We'll hopefully you won't find any dark spaces here ! Welcome to Computer Hope.

[2x3i5x]

I have defragger on autodefrag so it defrags whenever it sees the need to AND I have idle resources that it can use.

[maximdymok]

I've never defragged my hard drive before (2 years!!!) and free space on the drive was getting low-5 gb out of 220. When I scanned... 27% was fragmented!!!!!LOL!Took a LOOOOONG time to defrag.

[2x3i5x]

I heard OSX does some automatic defragging so you don't need to do it???

[BC_Programmer]

I heard OSX does some automatic defragging so you don't need to do it???

I believe so.

Actually, I discovered that is the reason why my fragmentation amount is so low on my machine. Windows 7 automatically defragments in the background as part of it's idle processing.