# Defragment C

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Thursday, 11-Jun-2009 13:14:50

Hey all, should I be worried that windows consistently tells me my drive does not need to be defragmented? Surely, at some point it needs it?
I'm running windows xp sp3 on a hp laptop.
Secondly, has anyone tried Defraggler? The folks that brought us CCleaner, now brings us Defraggler!
http://www.defraggler.com/

## Post 2 by Big Pawed Bear (letting his paws be his guide.) on Thursday, 11-Jun-2009 14:47:15

if it says, it does not need difragmentation, leav it. that's my advice.

## Post 3 by The Lil Dark Piggy (This site is so "educational") on Friday, 12-Jun-2009 2:55:37

never used Defraggler.

## Post 4 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Friday, 12-Jun-2009 6:16:11

For defragging, I've always used JKDefrag. Maybe I'll try it though, see how well it works. I love C Cleaner.

## Post 5 by rat (star trek rules!) on Friday, 12-Jun-2009 7:27:56

i wouldn't use it for full defrag, it takes way too long. it's freespace defrag is good though

## Post 6 by TylerK (This site is so "educational") on Friday, 12-Jun-2009 9:53:29

How often should one run dfrg.msc? And does Windows' built-in defragger have any command-line control?

## Post 7 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 12-Jun-2009 20:23:17

My computers dephragment once a month at some stupid time in the morning.
I don't notice any speed differences or more free space because I do it so often.
The general consensus is to do it between once a week and once a month; the only real time I've noticed a difference is when its never been done.
Its worth setting up your program to run at a time when your not using the computer that way more things can be moved.
Fyi, I use the commandline version of jk dephrag.
As far as the windows tool, the xp one doesn't support any switches as far as I know, but the vista one does - the ui is much more boring in the vista one and if you use the commandline you can get lots more functionalitty.
No harm can be done by dephragmenting and if you haven't done it before perhaps it should be on your to do list.

## Post 8 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Saturday, 13-Jun-2009 23:58:52

XP has the command-line options, just type defrag /? for options.
A common one is defrag c: /f
which forces reallocation of lost fragments.
There is a /v verbose options which displays all the statistical data if you're interested, but don't use it if you're the techie version of a hypochondriac ... &LT;g>