Question: If I turn off Automatic Disk Defragmentation in Windows 7 because my C drive is an SSD, can I still selectivley defragment the other drives in my system manually whenever I choose ????
I know I can this with a third party program like Diskeeper but can I do this from within Windows 7 ?????????
Of course you can, just select the drive you want to defrag with Windows 7 Defrag and proceed, is like many other utilities, personally, I'll use O&O Defrag, but is just me, if you are happy with Windows 7 one, go ahead, from the comments in the forum, I heard is heavily improved from older versions and keeps windows pretty fast.
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Run the WEI assesment.
After you do, Windows will likely make a couple adjustments.
Usually, it automatically disables Superfetch and Defrag on the SSD.
To Check, open the Disk Defragmenter.
Click On Configure Schedule
Then Click Select Disks
It should look similar to mine in this snip. I have 2 SSDs, and as you can see, both have been removed from the Defrag schedule by Windows leaving only my spinning drives.
Auto Defrag will continue to Defrag your drives on a schedule, and will exclude the SSDs if yours shows similar.
Keep in mind, if you manually choose to Defrag, it will!!
The only safe defrag I know of for SSD is Perfect Disk (Consolodate) and DiskKeeper (Hyperfast). Although this does not need to be done often at all.
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