What is 'defragging', and why should I do it?

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Many, many moons ago I spoke with a tech who insisted does not *ever* need to be defragged and, more specifically, should *never* be defragged. I've defragged at least once a week for well over 10 years; I suppose he was wrong??

Well, I at least disagree with him! :-)

I defrag regularly (once a week). Seeme to make the system more "compact" every time I do it. Plus, it helps - it really does. Sunday is my "computer maintenance day" LOL. As for "Mary" who is still runnig 98 - time to upgrade to an OS from THIS century!

whenever i defrag, i click the "view report" button after it has finished and it has said for the last couple of weeks that 5% is still fragmented; the programme/file that is is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\errors.log
and it has 16,923 fragments and is 4gb big, what should i do with it and is it a "vital" file?

I would update to Windows Defender (that's Microisoft AntiSpyware's new name and new version), uninstall Microsoft AntiSpyware and simply delete the file.

Do you have to re-load any software after you defrag your computer

Nope. Defragging is transparent to your installed software.

After I defraged C: drive using windows disk defrag facility,there is a report of the files that can't be defragged. However, the names of those files are shortened/incomplete and I don't know how to see the whole file path so that I can get rid of them. I used window xp home. How can I enlarge the report box or get the complete namepath somehow? I tried to print it, but it did not help either. Thanks.

well leo, nice to read you article bas i have problem in doing such thing,, am asking about the temporary files, whats will happens if i deleted them?
will i lose info ??
thanx

I ran defragment on my external hard drive and it came back with alot of file fragmented and clusters.What can I do to get rid of them?

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