Opinions on "Defraggler"?

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Steven Titchenell

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I'm using a free defragmenter program from Piriform called Defraggler. I run a quick defrag once a day & a full defrag once a week. I think it's a good program, but I'd like other opinions
Thanks
 
Quit defragging so much. Defrag should only be done once every few months and thats only if you install and uninstall programs frequently. And definitely don't defrag an SSD drive as you'll ruin it.
 
There's no need to defrag that often.

I'm curious, what hard drive do you have that you are defragging?
 
The manuals that came with my last two computers claim they were set to automatically defrag once a week, but they both seem to get slow frequently unless I do it manually. It's the C drive that the program defrags
 
Last tine I ever defraged a computer was when I had XP. Now I use SSDs so you don't do that and in fact you want to turn off auto defrag if you have a SSD.
 
In Win 7 I have always had to turn off auto defrag. In fact I even read so much as to do that. Maybe they were referring to Vista.
 
I never bothered defragging even when I didn't have an SSD. It took hours and made no difference to performance. Waste of time. My computer was slow because it was under-powered, not because the hard drive was fragmented.
 
spirit said:
My computer was slow because it was under-powered, not because the hard drive was fragmented.
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Eh, it probably influenced it to some degree.

Fragmentation makes a noticeable difference but it depends on the workload. Every time you are waiting on the drive to mechanically seek sectors that are discontiguous, it really murders your transfer rate and latency spikes up simply waiting on the arm to move and the correct platter sector to be presented for every file fragment.
 
Steven Titchenell said:
Defragging always makes a noticeable difference in my PC
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Unless you are doing something weird on your system, then you shouldn't be defragging more than a couple times a year at most. Usually only installing and uninstalling programs quite frequently will cause your drive to be fragmented.
 
johnb35 said:
Unless you are doing something weird on your system, then you shouldn't be defragging more than a couple times a year at most. Usually only installing and uninstalling programs quite frequently will cause your drive to be fragmented.
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Windows automatically installs updates on my PC several times per month and my antivirus (Webroot SecureAnywhere) & Google Chrome both update in the cloud. That sounds like potentially a lot of changes to me
 
Steven Titchenell said:
Windows automatically installs updates on my PC several times per month and my antivirus (Webroot SecureAnywhere) & Google Chrome both update in the cloud. That sounds like potentially a lot of changes to me
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Not enough to require a defrag.

Also Windows only updates once a month (Second Tuesday of the month) unless there is a critical security patch that needs to be fixed.
 
if you are defragging manually have you had your defrag program analyze the drive first?if so what was your degree of fragmentation?i agree with the guys here.it sounds like you are defragging just for the sake of it,not really knowing if you need to.
 
Steven Titchenell said:
Windows automatically installs updates on my PC several times per month and my antivirus (Webroot SecureAnywhere) & Google Chrome both update in the cloud. That sounds like potentially a lot of changes to me
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Its not the so much installing as it is uninstalling. Uninstalling programs and moving files is what actually causes the drive to get fragmented.
 
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