How often do you defragment your computer?

Thanks PeteC - appreciated.
Was ticked, will stay ticked. Wanted to know where view was if process no longer worked. For my 2 cents - this is one of XP's best decisions. My computer will be 4 years old in September, have defrag twice, current disk status is 4% fragmented (120GB - Mfg specs / 74GB free). Did notice my MFT has 5 fragmented files, so I decided to run XP's defrag program. HD came down to 1%, but MFT continues to display 5 fragments files. Should I be concerned? Is their a easy / safe process to defrag the MFT?

 

Thanks everyone for your input Though I would like to hear how often Arie does , If you have some free time Arie ? I would appreciate your opinion as well , Thx

 

Hi ... Are you saying this happen within Windows defrag or disk keeper ?

 

How often do you defragmaent your computer?

As with some of the replies, 'not very often' - maybe 3 months? I do a check of the HD properties regularly and a defrag analysis, and rely on the system message 'you do (or do not) need to defrag this volume'.
I also can't imagine that 10 times a day is necessary!

 

Thanks Pete , I was concern as towards folding , How the optimise would work or doesn't ?

 

Defrag. Diskkeeper. every day all by itself.

Works like a charm. (After I'm asleep. Should be in about an hour!)

 

Defragmenting

I defragment once a week using Diskeeper. Far better than basic windows defragmenter. Excellent results

 

I have Windows XPhome with the Service Pack 2 installed, I used to defrag weekly, but have switched to the NTFS file system recently and now every day before shut down I just run performance and maintainence, and use the Analyze utility, if it says I "should" defrag this volume, I do, some days it says to defrag, others, no "need" at this time, guess it depends what you did that day on the computer...............

 

I use XP defrag - do not have a network -usually once a month as I am a home user and even when I defrag only about 7% needs to be done. I spend more time on general disc cleanup and discarding unnecessary files as well as backup of files.

 

Once per month

 

I think it does the latter.

I can do a manual defrag one day, and then I notice that some of my files have been moved around on the drive after I analyze it later on.

 

Thanks everyone for all your opinions , much appreciated