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Re: Automatic Defrag Disable and Enable in Vista

C Bettley — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:36:52 -0000

I cann't find defrag either.

Re: Automatic Defrag Disable and Enable in Vista

Nooneinparticular — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:30:25 -0000

I can only recommend turning off auto defrag, as it runs way too often (for me almost daily) - And consequently reducing performance while it runs (2-3hours for me), while also reducing harddrive life time.
However, you need to remember to run defrag yourself, as defragmenting is important for performace - My rule of thumb is once a month.

Re: Automatic Defrag Disable and Enable in Vista

Benbong — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:51:03 -0000

I did that a year ago to have automatic defrag of my hard drive.
Yesterday I downloaded defraggler to check that it was doing the work properly and I have more than 40% fragmented files for a total of 90.4 Gb !!!

I usd to rely on windows tool to defrag the hard drive, but I think this one has failed completely that even a free solution is way better than this one (I am now down to 4% fragmentation with the free tool ...)

Re: Automatic Defrag Disable and Enable in Vista

mathomas — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:17:54 -0000

I have Windows Vista and I followed the above steps and do not see a selection for run automaticaly. I see run on a schedule. Is that what you mean by automatically? I am looking for something to defrag constantly/

Re: Automatic Defrag Disable and Enable in Vista

Arthur Richards — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:48:18 -0000

Following your instructions above I cannot see the RUN AUTOMATICALLY box.