They can generally defrag system files a little better, and they usually include tools for defragging the registry as well.īut here’s what they won’t tell you: Over the years, as hard drives have gotten much faster at both sequential and random reads and writes, the usefulness of defrag has dropped a bit. Our general, non-scientific testing has shown that commercial defrag utilities definitely accomplish the task a little better, adding features like boot-time defrag and boot speed optimization that the built-in defrag doesn’t have. It’s impossible to write an article about defrag and not at least mention third-party defrag utilities-but unfortunately we don’t have solid benchmarks to prove that they improve performance better than the default defrag built into Windows. RELATED: 6 Things You Shouldn't Do With Solid-State Drives Do Third-Party Defrag Utilities Really Matter?
It’s pretty simple, and you can configure it to run whenever you want. Luckily there’s a much better option-you can quickly and easily setup an automatic defrag in Windows XP using task scheduler.
If you’re a heavy user, you need to run it once a week. How regular? Well, that depends on how much data you’re creating, downloading, writing, and deleting. This also means that you are going to need to either manually defragment the drive on a regular basis. Sadly there’s no automatic defragmenter in Windows XP, which isn’t surprising since it’s 10 years old. This is probably not the case, but if you check and your drive hasn’t been defragged in a while, you might have to start doing it manually.
#HOW TO DEFRAG MY COMPUTER WINDOWS XP PC#
The one exception to this rule is if you turn your PC off every time after using it-essentially, if you never let the PC sit idle at all, the defrag task will never get a chance to run. Clearly the schedule is working just fine. You can check for yourself by opening up Disk Defragmenter and seeing the schedule there, as well as the last run and fragmentation levels.įor instance, in the screenshot below, you’ll see that the last time it ran just a few days ago, and there was zero percent fragmentation. If you’re using either Windows 7, 8, or even Vista, your system is already configured to run defrag on a regular basis-generally 1 AM every Wednesday.
#HOW TO DEFRAG MY COMPUTER WINDOWS XP WINDOWS 7#
RELATED: Do I Need to "Optimize" My SSD with Third-Party Software? If You’re Running Windows 7 or 8.x If you’re running Windows Vista, you should make sure to disable the automatic defrag and question your operating system choices, and if you’re using Windows XP with an SSD, one has to wonder why you’d have such an expensive solid state drive running with an ancient and unsupported operating system when you could switch to Linux instead. ….the automatic scheduling of defragmentation will exclude partitions on devices that declare themselves as SSDs. Because SSDs perform extremely well on random read operations, defragmenting files isn’t helpful enough to warrant the added disk writing defragmentation produces…
Windows 7 will disable disk defragmentation on SSD system drives. Here’s what Microsoft’s engineering team has to say on the subject: If you’re using an SSD (Solid State Drive) in your computer, you should not be defragmenting the drive to avoid excessive wear and tear-in fact, Windows 7 or 8 is smart enough to disable defrag for SSD drives. If You’re Using Windows with an SSD Drive
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