How to Defrag Your PC

[Guest]

It's simple to improve your computer's performance if you know how to defragment it.

How to Defrag Your PC : Read more

 

[mortsmi7]

Why not open windows explorer, single-click on the drive you want to defrag, and hit optimize at the top of the window under the manage tab? That's like 4 clicks and no typing involved.

 

[danwat1234]

I run defraggler on my SSD once every few months just to keep things tidy. It's 34nm flash so it doesn't really care about writes.

 

[danwat1234]

It would have been nice if this article showed benefits or the lack of benefits to advanced defrag/optimization algorithms such as defragging alphabetically via O&O Defrag or Ultimate Defrag , or 'SmartPlacement' by Raxco's PerfectDisk. Or Diskeeper's i-faaaaaaaaast.

 

[Major_Trouble]

You should NOT defrag a SSD. You are in fact causing excess wearing of the drive for no benefit. They don't suffer from the defragmentation slowdown like a spinning HDD. Access time for the fist mb of a SSD to the last is the same so it does not matter where the data you're retrieving is coming from. Windows even turn off scheduled defrags by default for SSDs.