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disk defrag
Name: Gordon Date: September 11, 2002 at 20:05:43 Pacific OS: 98 CPU/Ram: 266 64
Comment:
How often should I be doing a disk defrag? New to this and just wondering
Name: Bryco Date: September 11, 2002 at 20:19:50 Pacific
Reply:
It depends on how much you add or remove things from your PC.
If you are using WinME defrag and it takes more then 10 minutes then do it more often. Of course, if you have not defragged in 6 months then it will take considerably longer.
I personally defrag weekly whether I need it or not.
Bryan
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Response Number 2
Name: sk Date: September 11, 2002 at 22:35:21 Pacific
Reply:
same here,
i defrag my computer every week.
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Response Number 3
Name: spamtrap Date: September 12, 2002 at 00:45:10 Pacific
Reply:
Weekly seems excessive to me. Once a month is probably ok. Depends somewhat on how much you write to the disk. However if your hard drive is near full files become fragmented more quickly, especially big files such as the swap file. I must admit I liked the old defrag (win3.1 or maybe win95) that told you how fragmented your drive was and gave you the option of defragging or not.
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tweak for 98-2nd
