I voted for once a week, although it's somewhere between that and once a month. I am ready to trial Diskeeper 2010, so I anticipate that number increasing with their Real-Time Defragmentation feature.
Yeah, installing games/copying big files (Movies, setup and all that) fragments the drive so faaaaaast. Specially games with lots of files like FSX damn
Code: /dev/hdc1 3.7G 3.2G 461M 88% /win_c /dev/hdc2 4.4G 3.8G 636M 86% /win_e Not often but easy - they're both less than four-point-five G's.
i tend to do a defrag once every... i don't even remember when i last defragged my drive for that matter. i desparately need a auto defragger like a diskeeper
Once a week. Well i don't know exactly, but i guess Windows 7 will automatically defrag my drive.. once a week.
Windows 7 is set to defrag the hard drive once a week with Windows own Disk Defrag tool. Used to use Diskeeper but was tired of the constantly running proces in the background (you could turn off this feature) and that my AV software at that time always detected Diskkepper as a rootkit. (zonealarm extreme security)
I defrag a system probably twice while I'm building it and once more when it's complete. After that, almost never unless I make a lot of changes. My PCs change little and the hard drive contents change even less. The temp folders, browser cache, and similar items are on RAM drives. The operating systems each have their own partition, as does a shared swap file partition. My system partitions don't get fragmented so there's no need.
Boot defrag every Saturday, Background Defrag after 5 min of system inactivity, and manual defrag any other time I want.
Daily Ultimate Defrag work quite fast after you've done all the configuration and first defragmentation run.
maybe every 2 month , coz i already have acronise image and i use it every 2 month and then i defrag the computer.
I defrag with Diskeeper prior to every time I backup my system with Acronis True Image- maybe twice a week.