[Fanatical][FREE] O&O Software Defrag 25 (Speed Up Your PC)

100% this. Defragmenting SSDs will sort of steal an amount of times in which they can be written on with data.
Defragmenting is only useful for mechanical drives which are accessing their data with varying speed, depending where it's located on the physical disk.
SSDs accessing data on every sector with the same speed, since there are no mechanical parts, that literally have to reach for a certain part on the disk.

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It is better to only defrag the entire system once, including the SSD, after all the OS, browsers and daily used applications have been installed and security updates have been completed.
This would be a more realistic operation than shortening the life of the SSD significantly on a regular basis.
The need to use external applications for this purpose would not be too much.

You're correct, never defrag an SSD, you're just reducing it's lifespan for no benefit what so ever.

Yes, thanks for pointing that :)

also, from windows 7 onwards defragging is not needed anymore due to better write algorithms and bigger disk capacity
so for the average user defragging is a thing of the past

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Well, from the perspective of a not-a-tech-person,... the more you use your computer, the more files you generate and the more the computer slows down. Defragmentation of a mechanical drive is helpful in this case, because it will move the data around and make it easier and faster to access. I think there's magnetism involved in hard drives, so it's easy to rewrite them and it doesn't do any harm. When you have SSD though, they work differently. There's no point in defragmenting them, because it won't speed up the reading of the data and it will wear out the transistors inside, lowering the lifespan.
I know my dad was really into defragmenting back in the day... He kept doing it all the time to make his computer run better, but his computer also always kept on exploding, so I dunno, maybe don't do it that often even if you have a magnetic hard drive, haha.

A single file on your computer is often broken into multiple locations across the hard drive (for reasons). The file system is aware of this.

In the days of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, the fragmentation of files across the physical hard drive would cause noticable slowing as the computer read those files, moving the physical disk reading mechanism from one sector of a disk to another multiple times to read a single file. (Exactly like a vinyl record player, with a needle jumping around to different spots.)

Defragmenting ("defragging") your files moved all the broken-up bits of files into one continuous file, so the read mechanism only had to make a big move once per file.

Video games on disc-based systems like the PlayStation would also go as far as to group files from one game level together on the disk to make level loads faster. Or if there was room on the disc, another optimization might be to put copies of a file used in multiple levels into multiple spots on the disc. Also, if I'm remembering correctly, try to put things in the center of the disc that are read often, since there's less movement for the read mechanism to travel through that area of data.

In a modern computer, with multi-platter drives, and solid state drives, and much larger RAM storage, file fragmentation is an issue that almost doesn't matter. But the read mechanism is still there, still moving around a bunch, and can still benefit from defragging into continuous files. I don't remember if modern OSes actually handle a bit of it themselves it not.

Since you don't know what defrag is, I want to warn you not to use this on your SSD if you have them. This is mainly for disk based hard drives.

Its been built into windows for years now. Its automatic. It only applied to HDs, not to SSDs. SSDs use Trim. Its also built in and automatic.

Click your start, type "defrag" open the "defrag and optimize app" that it will find. This will show you your stats, let you run it manually or change the frequency. Looks like mine is weekly. I don't remember if thats something I set or was the default.

I remember using this after I built my current pc and installed Windows 10. Even the recommended settings can be too aggressive and prevent normal stuff from working. Like, the recommended setting disables Windows Spotlight which is the feature that downloads and changes the wallpaper daily on your lock screen. I and many people like that feature.

The program explains that rating the wallpaper will send information about you and your pc to Microsoft. Ok but why not just tell users to not use the rating option or maybe create a block in your firewall? No need to disable the entire feature.

It has its uses if you know exactly what you're disabling or you're super paranoid but for a lot of people it's probably too aggressive.

why? u can, but you dont need to

You can do it and it can help. Just don't do it constantly.

Thank you for the key. I redeemed this one.

Just means it's set to auto -defrag ,pretty sure you can turn that off.

Says it here:
https://www.oo-software.com/en/press_releases/oo-defrag-22-ssds-langer-nutzen-dank-neuartiger-solid-methode
"Automatic defragmentation: Automatic defragmentation is enabled by default after the installation of O&O Defrag and optimizes the disks in the background without slowing down the performance of the computer"

Last part of that quote is not quite true :)

My acquaintance with O&O defrag ended in the times when HDDs were the only affordable storage solution ... and it crashed my Windows 7 reliably.