How often do you defrag?

[Dean C]

.....?

[M1th]

Haven't done for like 4/5 months now.

[DarkDelight.net]

My configurations change too often to defrag.
They're all formatted every month or so.

[N9ne]

Everytime I try to defrag, it just gets stuck and crashes at around 40%. But who cares, I reformat every 6 months now.

[ABLady]

OMG! I had forgotten there was such an option in windows! LOL

[Freddie Bingham]

Diskeeper does it every night.

[anjam]

Every 4 to 6 weeks!

[YCrowley]

not for a while now, but i'll be reformatting in about a month or so, i18 is coming up

usually i'd reformat once every 6 to 8 months and defrag at least once in that time

[Lacrosse Boy]

Once a week.

[Matthew Gordon]

Once a year if it's lucky.

[UHN_ED]

Every time I install something if I have deleted anything in between.

[noppid]

What's defrag?

[ABLady]

What's defrag?

When files on your computer get written in different fragments/locations of disc space. Therefore a file could be fragmented in many parts accross your disc. Imagine how much work it is for your computer to jump from on place to another to get the whole data for the fragmented file. Defrag looks at each file and tries to move it so that it's not seperated and is all in one piece. Think of it as sewing the head, neck, arms and body of a person back togehter. That's what defrag does.....and ofcourse a little more, like moving certain files next togeter or higher in the disc level and etc.

[noppid]

When files on your computer get written in different fragments/locations of disc space. Therefore a file could be fragmented in many parts accross your disc. Imagine how much work it is for your computer to jump from on place to another to get the whole data for the fragmented file. Defrag looks at each file and tries to move it so that it's not seperated and is all in one piece. Think of it as sewing the head, neck, arms and body of a person back togehter. That's what defrag does.....and ofcourse a little more, like moving certain files next togeter or higher in the disc level and etc.

I'll have to try it someday.

[ABLady]

I'll have to try it someday.

depending on how bad your hard-drive is fragmented, it could take sometimes up to hours runing defrag on windows if you have a large hard-drive.