Computer stalling often

[fustercluck]

My computer seems to be stalling a lot lately, where it takes 8-10 seconds to load things that shouldnt be hard to load at all, like opening up the start menu for one. Then this sound comes from my case like it's struggling, just to open some small program or something. I don't know why it's acting so sluggish, not all the time, but pretty often. What shall i do?

 

[Unsolved Paradox]

Since it's related to loading, I'll ask the obvious; do you defrag your hard drive on a regular basis?

 

[fustercluck]

Nope, i guess i should, can't seem to find the time though. Is there a program out there that will defrag all of the drives in order? It's kind of annoying to have to choose each drive individually. Not defrag all of them at the same time of course, but in order, automaticly.

 

[fustercluck]

bump, any good defrag programs out there?

 

[daveybrat]

When you say "all of your hard drives" how many are we talking about?

And if you can't find the time to defrag them, then i guess you'll have to be satisfied with lower
performance, it's that easy.

 

[fustercluck]

Well, i'd just like to be able to leave it on one night and have most of the drives be defragged by the time i wake up, but you can only select one drive at a time to defrag, and can't schedule it to do more than that.