Solved ? About Defragging

[Sandie]

Am I right in assuming you dont need to manually defrag Wind 7, it will do it automatically once a week if needed? Just want to make sure. Thanks

 

[Dinesh]

Just open Disk Defrag and schedule to run it once a month.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

The default schedule is once a week. That will typically keep your fragmentation percentage under 5%. You can check to confirm the schedule or to change it--I think the default is every Wednesday?

Plenty good enough unless you consider yourself to be obsessive.

 

[Sandie]

Thanks to both of you, I just wanted to be sure. Sandie

 

[kado897]

Make sure it's set to run when your computer is on. I think the default is the middle of the night.

 

[Sandie]

K, thanks I just changed it to Mondays at 10 am, its always on then.

 

[Sandie]

Ok something weird, I went to the Disk Defragmenter, and when I clicked on Analyze, next to OS(C: its saying 34% analyzed, and has been at 34% now for well over 2 hours, seems like it just stopped. I have never opened that before so not too sure if that should take that long.

 

[Dinesh]

That's strange. Stop the defrag and try again.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Ok something weird, I went to the Disk Defragmenter, and when I clicked on Analyze, next to OS(C: its saying 34% analyzed, and has been at 34% now for well over 2 hours, seems like it just stopped. I have never opened that before so not too sure if that should take that long.

I've never had the "analysis" function take more than 1 minute or so.

 

[kado897]

Might be worth running chkdsk on the drive.

 

[Sandie]

I stopped it, then it started again, and yes it didnt take long at all, not too sure what happened,unless it happened when I closed the window by mistake, but I did open it again. Anyhow it seems ok now. Thanks everyone!

 

[shoe]

If you have it scheduled for auto defrag will I be able to see it happen

 

[Sandie]

I was able to by opening the disk defragmenter. Since this is all new to me, I will let someone else add their input.