For old computer users in the bad old days of computing, it is a big deal to make hard drive defragmentation. They must pay much on a quality “defragmenter” tool and use it at least per month to improve PC performance.
Nowadays, things have changed. With the rapid developments on computing, the computers and hard drives is not the same performance-wrecking and computer slow problem as they once were any more. Especially, if you are a computer users for the newly Windows 7, there is no need to worry about the hard drive fragmentation at all. You may be shocked by its 3 key features about hard drive defragmentation:
Windows 7 OS provides a built-in disk defragmenter program running automatically at scheduled times.
As the latest operating system from Windows, Windows 7 offers a built-in Disk Defragmenter tool to make your hard drive defragged usually every week by its default setting. Thus, there is no need to speed money on other disk defrag software unless you have some other requests on it.
Windows 7 users do not need to keep their computers on overnight.
That is to say, if your Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7 computer is disabled to run at a scheduled time, it will kick in the next time when your PC is idle.
Please prevent yourself from defragmenting a solid-state drive (SSD).
When you have a Windows 7 laptop with a SSD installed, please make sure to turn off the scheduled defragmentation feature first. For it will shorten your SSD lifespan. The how-to is as below: click Start, type disk, and then press Disk Defragmenter, and then Configure schedule to turn off the Disk Defragmenter.
BTW, for an external hard drive that is not kept to be connected onto your computer in Windows 7, it may not always be defragged by the smart Disk Defragmenter utility. Thus, to keep your computer running fast and hard drive working perfect, we recommend you to run the Disk Defragmenter by manual regularly, for example, once per month.
