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Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | Thanks everyone

Manuela Junghans — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:11:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: Manuela Junghans
Post title: Thanks everyone

for your valuable input.

The reason for suggesting this poll was that it has been pointed out to me that defragmenting / cleaning up the HDD is something I should do VERY regularly since it would make a big difference in the working speed of the laptop.

But fortunately (or not?) I don´t seem to be the only one being a bit carelss about everything to do with computer maintenance...

Manuela

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | macjanitor

Rebecca Garber — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:52:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: Rebecca Garber
Post title: macjanitor

Nifty program, easy, does everything while I'm off doing something else.
Every Monday morning I set it loose.

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | N/A

Sandra C. (X) — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:24:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: Sandra C. (X)
Post title: N/A

I have a Mac, so this doesn't really apply. I am very tidy though and never keep unnecessary mails, docs, internet cache and history, etc.
One thing I do about once a week is to repair the disk permissions, but that's mainly because I'm a gamer and that, sometimes, "conflicts" can arise within my computer... ;-)

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | Defrag?

Christine Andersen — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:19:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: Christine Andersen
Post title: Defrag?

I can't translate the Danish comment we used to make...

(Time-wasting for nerds) - the innuendo and tone of voice just don't come over. Something like watching paint dry!

I do delete about 20 e-mails a day, none of them spam, but things like 'OK, have a nice weekend', KudoZ that I'm not following up... offers from Trados :-D and others hoping I'll spend money on their products...

I sort out the day's jobs into a folder called 'Work completed' where relevant and take backups on a memory chip of work in progress before I close down.

Then once a month I delete several hundred other mails and save the rest in relevant places. I always have mails from four to six weeks back in the mailbox, should I need to refer to them.... but need very few of them.

I rarely have time to do more, but occasionally I go through my terminology folder and dream about setting some of the files up in Multiterm. Then a mail comes in or the phone rings, and it's back to work!

I could of course set the thing to defrag while I cook supper, the way I do a scan once in a while, but I'm terrified it will lose something in the process.

My motto is: If it ain't broke, don't fix it ;-)
A Windows Security update disconnected my printer last summer, and for a month I had to use the backup computer AND the tiny backup printer just to get a copy for proofing... before I convinced my guru it was not my fault :-(
(When he saw on the Net that others had the same problem, it took him just minutes to fix it !)

Someone might expect me to tidy up my bookshelf next!
Then I'd never see half my dictionaries again :-D

[Edited at 2006-09-15 15:09]

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | For the impatient types

PAS — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:03:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: PAS
Post title: For the impatient types

About once a month is enough to defragment your drive, but surely you can set it to run when you eat dinner, watch TV (gasp!) or go out to a movie. No need wait for defragmentation while you work.

Pawel Skalinski

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | format the C partition every couple of months

Konstantin Kisin — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:48:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: Konstantin Kisin
Post title: format the C partition every couple of months

I usually end up reformatting and doing a clean install of XP every couple of months. :)

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | Monthly

CasaPhil — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:10:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: CasaPhil
Post title: Monthly

(Win XP) But whatever you do, after a while there will be junk that slows down the PC. And I have never seen much difference after defragmenting disks that were heavily fragmented or cleaning up GBs of useless files, even with dedicated maintenance tools.
What really makes a difference is reformatting the whole system partition. I do it once a year and it's like having a new computer. I usually allow myself two days for this task and plan well in advance with to-do lists (backing up this and that, saving such settings, check availability of the software source, etc.) in order to get almost exactly the same environment as before and resume work with as little difference as possible, except increased speed.
Philippe

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | Clean up once a year

Marie-Céline GEORG — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:58:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: Marie-Céline GEORG
Post title: Clean up once a year

Once a year I clean up my hard disk, i.e. remove useless files, rearrange directories, suppress old e-mails and faxes, etc. It's not that I need to free space, but sometimes I get quite messy...
But since I have this computer (4 years), I haven't defragmented it - I'm not very eager to do it so I tend to trust Windows when the dialog box tells me that my computer doesn't need defrag. Let's touch wood and hope that it goes on like that until I need a new computer :-)
Marie-Céline

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | Linux here too

M. Anna Kańduła — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:39:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: M. Anna Kańduła
Post title: Linux here too

[quote]Anthony Baldwin wrote:

I use linux, which automagically maintains the hard drive, without my intervention. Fragmentation is not an issue. [/quote]

The same with my system :)

Anni

[Edited at 2006-09-15 06:41]

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | I follow the rule "dig a well when you are thirsty"

Balasubramaniam L. — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:43:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: Balasubramaniam L.
Post title: I follow the rule "dig a well when you are thirsty"

In other words, I never do it, or do it only when I just cannot avoid it. Or when the computer itself suggests that I do it to release up space. This happens rarely for I have an 80 GB hard disk, large parts of which are empty at all times.

The few times I have done defrag, I have not noticed any marked improvement in performance. And it takes an awfully long time to complete it and I get impatient.

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | TuneUp Utilities 2006

Reed James — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:04:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: Reed James
Post title: TuneUp Utilities 2006

I always get impatient when I attempt to defragment the hard drive...so I never do it! However, I have TuneUp Utilities set to "clean" my computer every Friday afternoon when I am out.

It fixes the registry, erases temporary files and a few other useful tasks.

Reed

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | Scheduled for once a week

JaneTranslates — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:46:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: JaneTranslates
Post title: Scheduled for once a week

I have scheduled these tasks and they take place automatically every Friday evening. Of course, sometimes my computer isn't on, so it doesn't always get done once a week. That's probably more often than necessary, anyway.

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer? | linux

Anthony Baldwin — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:38:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: Anthony Baldwin
Post title: linux

I use linux, which automagically maintains the hard drive, without my intervention. Fragmentation is not an issue.

Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?

ProZ.com Staff — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:17:57 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you defragment and clean up the hard disk of your computer?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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