The question that I get a lot from my friends and the answer has no real answer and here is why. Every time you use a file it can be misplaced which means that you would need to defragment again, but they will not affect your system in any major way. So I will be discussing my rule of thumb on my own computer and I will give you a good defragmenter that is really fast, free, and optimizes the files so that they are going to speed up your computer faster.
What Does Defragmenting My Hardrive Do?
To put it in simple terms if puts your misplaced files in their correct positions. So they will not affect your documents but the files that you download such as those that are in Google Chrome. Now when it optimizes your files is where it gets kind of complicated, but I will make it simple. Now when your program defragments the files it will detect when they are most used. Now optimization will take the most used files and put them first in the list so to speak. So if I use Google Chrome daily, but I never use League of Legends. Then League of Legends will be put behind it so to speak. Meaning that chrome will load even faster and while League of Legends will load faster it is not a main priority. This will not make League Of Legends load slowly in any way so don't fear optimization embrace it.
How Often Do I Need To Defragment?
You should defragment your system once a week to a month. The more often it is done the faster it will be, but I recommend once a week if you download a lot of programs like I do. The reason is the more you download without defragmenting the slower your system will get and you don't want to do this. So do it once a week if you download a lot or once a month if you don't do a lot on your computer. Now what I do is I do it daily because my computer can do it in roughly 5 to 10 minutes which is pretty good, but this varies depending on how much I have downloaded that day.So do it daily, weekly, or monthly any of them and your computer will be running smoother.
What Program Should I Use?
Now many people like to use the default windows program however I like to use other programs that give me more information and they are A LOT faster than the default windows one. So I recommend using Iobit Smart Defrag or their full system speed up tool program Advanced System Care. Either of these programs will practically do it all by themselves, and they do it faster than any other program I have seen. Not to mention the fact that they automatically give you the files that needed to be defragmented and give a lot of useful information, but that is just something that I like. But these are the programs that I recommend you using for defragmenting your computer.I HAVE NO AFFILIATION WITH IOBIT I JUST THINK THEY MAKE GREAT PRODUCTS.
Links
http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.htmlhttp://www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcareper.php
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