Sadly there’s no automatic defragmenter in Windows XP, which isn’t surprising since it’s 10 years old. Clearly the schedule is working just fine. You can check for yourself by opening up Disk Defragmenter and seeing the schedule there, as well as the last run and fragmentation levels.įor instance, in the screenshot below, you’ll see that the last time it ran just a few days ago, and there was zero percent fragmentation. If you’re using either Windows 7, 8, or even Vista, your system is already configured to run defrag on a regular basis-generally 1 AM every Wednesday. RELATED: Do I Need to "Optimize" My SSD with Third-Party Software? If You’re Running Windows 7 or 8.x If you’re running Windows Vista, you should make sure to disable the automatic defrag and question your operating system choices, and if you’re using Windows XP with an SSD, one has to wonder why you’d have such an expensive solid state drive running with an ancient and unsupported operating system when you could switch to Linux instead. ….the automatic scheduling of defragmentation will exclude partitions on devices that declare themselves as SSDs. Because SSDs perform extremely well on random read operations, defragmenting files isn’t helpful enough to warrant the added disk writing defragmentation produces… Windows 7 will disable disk defragmentation on SSD system drives. Here’s what Microsoft’s engineering team has to say on the subject: If you’re using an SSD (Solid State Drive) in your computer, you should not be defragmenting the drive to avoid excessive wear and tear-in fact, Windows 7 or 8 is smart enough to disable defrag for SSD drives.
If You’re Using Windows with an SSD Drive
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