EE Broadway Local Posted July 22, 2010 Share #1 Posted July 22, 2010 How often do you defragment your disks and do you use disk cleanup? Is weekly too often? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted July 22, 2010 Share #2 Posted July 22, 2010 Good thing I don't have to defragment with journaled HFS+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted July 22, 2010 Share #3 Posted July 22, 2010 To be honest I never do any of the two. I have two 500 GB internal hard drives that I never defrag. I also have 3 TB external that I don't defrag either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRG Posted July 22, 2010 Share #4 Posted July 22, 2010 My brother does that cleanup/defrag crap everyday. Talk about OCD. I do it once a month. Speaking of which, my computer is overdue for both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share #5 Posted July 22, 2010 Thanks. I've been doing disk defragment about every eight days and disk cleanup about every nine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
553 Bridgeton Posted July 22, 2010 Share #6 Posted July 22, 2010 To be honest I never do any of the two. I have two 500 GB internal hard drives that I never defrag. I also have 3 TB external that I don't defrag either. Your not the only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted July 22, 2010 Share #7 Posted July 22, 2010 How often do you defragment your disks and do you use disk cleanup? Is weekly too often? last time I defragged was last sunday, actually... the time before that... was probably during the fall of last year... so yeh, I don't defrag often; IMO, you don't need to... ....if you keep defragging every week, I can just about guarantee you will end up having HD failure far sooner than most pc users ever would... it's unnecessary... even if you do a bunch of video editing (compressing/uncompressing; converting, etc.....) ...and disk cleanup is absolutely useless to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbanfortitude Posted July 22, 2010 Share #8 Posted July 22, 2010 i never defrag. i use CCleaner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted July 22, 2010 Share #9 Posted July 22, 2010 i never defrag. i use CCleaner you sir, know the deal... man, I've been using that prog. for years... hasn't let me down yet. ---------------- (had to ditch ad-aware though... the newer versions all but force you to install google chrome... ) the newest version, to date, is ad-aware 8.3.... that shit is 120MB. the last version that was on my comp before I decided to "upgrade", was 7.0.(something)... it was only 20MB I d/l'd it & (attempted to) install it.... I'm clicking the necessary checkboxes... hitting "next", and then I see a snapshot of the google chrome browser... asking if I would like to include it in with the installation, or not... I was like, nah, f*** you... I just cancelled out of the whole process & deleted the executable file from my pc.... I had an inkling something was up, as to why the .exe was so gordy in filesize (compared to prior versions).... I mean, how underhanded can you get.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted July 22, 2010 Share #10 Posted July 22, 2010 To be honest I never do any of the two. I have two 500 GB internal hard drives that I never defrag. I also have 3 TB external that I don't defrag either. 3 TB external? :drools: But yeah I haven't done either of those as well. Did that with my older pc and it hasn't worked the same since. I honestly don't see a need to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova RTS 9147 Posted July 22, 2010 Share #11 Posted July 22, 2010 Every two months, or whenever she shows any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRT Bronx Express Posted July 22, 2010 Share #12 Posted July 22, 2010 Only did it three times last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rr4567 Posted July 23, 2010 Share #13 Posted July 23, 2010 Good thing I don't have to defragment with journaled HFS+. Mac User B) I remove all claims of defragmentation vs. drive failure. After extensive testing,.......well in a post below I will show my findings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
error46146 Posted July 23, 2010 Share #14 Posted July 23, 2010 How often do you defragment your disks and do you use disk cleanup? Is weekly too often? I defragment mine about once a year..as said defragmenting will wear out your hard drive and that will lead to problems down the road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted July 23, 2010 Share #15 Posted July 23, 2010 as said defragmenting will wear out your hard drive LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iGeMiNix Posted July 23, 2010 Share #16 Posted July 23, 2010 Usually, whenever I install a new game or so I defrag since my hard drives are pretty old, but yeah I hardly defrag unless I feel there is a need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rr4567 Posted July 23, 2010 Share #17 Posted July 23, 2010 Defragmenting has little to no effect on a hard drive. Speed of hard drive before defragmentation started Speed of hard drive during process So as you see, there is very little effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share #18 Posted July 23, 2010 Thanks again. Windows Live One Care was doing a defragmentation once per month as part of their tuneup. I've modified to defragment only once every eighteen days and use disk cleanup only once every month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share #19 Posted July 27, 2010 Tonight at 5:30pm, Microsoft Security Essientials caught a virus that was attempting to squeeze into my laptop and replicate, alerted me, then removed it and cleaned my computer. :tup: The virus was a Virus;BAT:Ballicus,A I feel I made the right choice for security after Windows One Care was discontinued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NX Express Posted July 27, 2010 Share #20 Posted July 27, 2010 Cool! Did you try Spyware Doctor yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted July 27, 2010 Share #21 Posted July 27, 2010 You've overtaken Yuki as the most randomest dude on here... IDC if that isn't a word either... lol seriously though.... How are you all catching viruses as frequently as you are... I don't remember the last time my kaspersky (even last year when I had McAfee) even brought up a warning.... helpful tip: stay off those adult sites & those newsgroups... you won't catch near as many viri.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infamous85 Posted July 27, 2010 Share #22 Posted July 27, 2010 I was under the impression that defragmenting erased the hard drive since it said "clean". I'm tempted to try it now but this computer is already clinging to life, I don't want it to take a turn for the worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share #23 Posted July 27, 2010 You've overtaken Yuki as the most randomest dude on here...IDC if that isn't a word either... lol helpful tip: stay off those adult sites & those newsgroups... you won't catch near as many viri.... I have? Is that a good thing or a bad thing, B35 via Church? P.S. I keep my computer on safesearch :tup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted July 27, 2010 Share #24 Posted July 27, 2010 I was under the impression that defragmenting erased the hard drive since it said "clean". I'm tempted to try it now but this computer is already clinging to life, I don't want it to take a turn for the worse. What you're thinking of is formatting a HD... Anyway, if you're an average computer user... and you don't have too many large files on your HD (I know that's subjective, but I'd say any single file at & over 100MB is large), you won't see/notice any significant change (while using your PC) by defragging your HD.... I don't want to bore you, in explaining how files get fragmented over time, and why some say it's preferable to defragment the HD every so often.... I have? Is that a good thing or a bad thing, B35 via Church? P.S. I keep my computer on safesearch :tup: it helps.... you don't have kids around the house, do you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share #25 Posted July 27, 2010 No, no little ones. Just two parakeets, two zebra finches and a beagle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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