I was born in 1973, got my first computer in 1994, defragging was part of regular maintenance. I can’t remember the last time I defragged anything, even though I have several devices with hard drives, including a Windows laptop. Has storage technology changed so much that defragging isn’t necessary anymore? Is it even possible to defrag a smart phone hard drive?
edit to add: I apologize for posting this same question several times, I was getting an error message every time I hit “post”… but from looking around, it seems I’m not the only one having this problem today.
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If you right click on your drive and select “Properties”, and then in the “Tools” tab, click “Optimize”, a window will open. It will tell you when the last “optimize” of each drive happened. In my case, all drives were “optimized” 22 days ago. I did not start it and I never saw it happen.
So Windows is just doing it for you in the background.
I was born in 1973, got my first computer in 1994, defragging was part of regular maintenance. I can’t remember the last time I defragged anything, even though I have several devices with hard drives, including a Windows laptop. Has storage technology changed so much that defragging isn’t necessary anymore? Is it even possible to defrag a smart phone hard drive?
edit to add: I apologize for posting this same question several times, I was getting an error message every time I hit “post”… but from looking around, it seems I’m not the only one having this problem today.
In: 821
If you right click on your drive and select “Properties”, and then in the “Tools” tab, click “Optimize”, a window will open. It will tell you when the last “optimize” of each drive happened. In my case, all drives were “optimized” 22 days ago. I did not start it and I never saw it happen.
So Windows is just doing it for you in the background.
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