POLL: How often do you defragment?

[NOX]

I'll do it once a week. Win2k is fast, so I don't mind waiting 10 minutes for it to defrag all 4 partitions. (in win98 I used to wait a months for it to defrag, until I heard about diskeeper).

 

[arod324]

Probably every two weeks. It takes usually 1.5 or 2 hours using the default windows defragger.

 

[Mixxen]

Once a month.

 

[BassDominator]

once a week

 

[Wuming]

when i think it is time to do so. defragging is such a painfully slow process...

 

[stso]

Does defragment really make differences???
I never defrag cus it takes forever!! ...... By the way, my system run fine

 

[Super6]

Once a week using Norton Speed Disk...it's fast and keeps my swap file where I want it.

Super6

 

[Vyle]

About once a month. Takes about three hours.

 

[Katana]

I usually defrag before I install a big file which averages about three times a month. I use VOPT ME and it only takes 5-10 minutes on a 30gig hdd.

 

[Supergax]

Whenever my system starts acting goofy. It usually takes about 1/2 hour on a 20 gig drive using the stock win2k defrager.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Every 2 weeks.

 

[conlan]

speed disk once a week , about 5-10 mins.

 

[RC5Bri]

I do it once a day, or every other day. I run Win2k(home) and NT4(work), so I use Diskeeper and it might take 1-2 minutes to defrag a 15G and 45G drive. I highly suggest using Diskeeper on a Win9x, it definitely speeds things up tremendously.

RC5Bri

 

[Alfred]

I schedule that from 4am to 6am and 6am to 8am for my two hard drives.

Alfred

 

[PliotronX]

About once a week.

Oh and it takes about 15 minutes (average) per drive (45Gig, 27Gig, and 6Gig).

 

[MichaelD]

I defragment at least once a week, using the stock disk defragmenter w/Win98. I takes about 20-25 minutes to defrag my 45 gig hard drive. I'm lucky that I have a fast system. My buddy has the same HD with a 600MHz system and it takes almost two hours. I'm going to look into the Norton Utilities though. It sounds cool.

 

[DoOLiE11]

i usually defrag about once a month to once every two months. takes about 30 - 45 min

 

[shiznut123]

About once a month. I don't install software that often.

 

[Juniorwv]

i use speed disk about 2x a week.

|Esk|

 

[hifimaster]

Every Day because speeddisk is so fast,it takes about 10 minutes.

 

[JoeDaddy]

Whats defrag and where can I buy it?

 

[thorin]

I defrag about once every month or two, it takes about 30mins to 45mins to do my 20GBs.

Thorin

 

[AncientPC]

About once a week at least, always with Norton Utilities 2000 Speed Disk and always at night. When you have 3 hdd's and 72 gigs worth (at least 50% constantly moving around) it takes a while. Sometimes I have it running for at least 12 ~ 15 hours before it's done.

This is my 200th post.

 

[Motero]

About once a month.

 

[PliotronX]

Speaking of Speeddisk, does anyone know how to keep it from messing with Bootsect.dos thereby messing up the primary partition in a dual boot config? The fix at Symantec's site doesn't work