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Flightless Bird
I use my home PC (XP SP3) to burn CD’s and movies.
I start off by transferring 2-4 GB of data from USB drives to the HHD.
After the transfer, I run Disk clean and then Defrag. Often, Defrag shows
blocks of fragmented files. Sometimes I have to run Defrag multiple times in
order to clean them up before burning the CD's.
I was speaking w/ a Dell tech rep yesterday about my new laptop (Windows 7
64 bit) & he indicated that running Defrag too often may damage my system -
for W 7, he said to just run it every other month.
I would appreciate your opinion as to whether this is correct?
1) would such be the case for both XP and Windows 7?
2) How often is OK for each of these respective OS?
TIA
I start off by transferring 2-4 GB of data from USB drives to the HHD.
After the transfer, I run Disk clean and then Defrag. Often, Defrag shows
blocks of fragmented files. Sometimes I have to run Defrag multiple times in
order to clean them up before burning the CD's.
I was speaking w/ a Dell tech rep yesterday about my new laptop (Windows 7
64 bit) & he indicated that running Defrag too often may damage my system -
for W 7, he said to just run it every other month.
I would appreciate your opinion as to whether this is correct?
1) would such be the case for both XP and Windows 7?
2) How often is OK for each of these respective OS?
TIA