Comments on: Defragmenting your hard disk

By: teenoie

teenoie — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:47:49 +0000

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

By: philipyeoh

philipyeoh — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:18:11 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Roman.

By: roman

roman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:12:07 +0000

I have set Diskeeper to defrag my drives automatically. Defragmenting helps keep the drives healthy and prevents performance deterioration.

By: philipyeoh

philipyeoh — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:32:24 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Lisa and Doris. Guess it’s all those housekeeping chores that make geeks like me happy in Windows.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:47:31 +0000

As you know, I’m not a Windows user. I don’t have to defrag as Mac’s use a Unix core (I believe) so I’m thankful that my computer time isn’t taken up with virus scanning, defragging, spyware checking and Ccleaning.

But yes, when I do use Windows (rarely) I do use Ccleaner. That program is awesome, and I do defrag. Don’t have Vista anymore but used to set it to manually defrag once a week.

My routine used to look something like virus and spyware checking (at the same time usually) then Cclean, then defrag. I never used to notice any difference afterward, but to be honest I used to keep it immaculately clean anyway, so that’s probably why LOL.

By: Doris

Doris — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:09:26 +0000

It’s an important point that when I defrag (which is not nearly as religiously as you!) it is the LAST step in my cleanup routine. If you do it before other steps, you’ll just be re-fragmenting your files when you remove the junk!