Humph

Well, since I have 220GB free out of total 289GB it would be stupid of me to worry about defragging anyway. I do use the CCleaner weekly to get rid of excess. As I say I analysed and did the Defraggler ONCE only without going back to defrag individual files. Surely that cannot have done harm?

Well thank you Kroozer. I would guess that therefore it is only worth Defraggling when your Drive C is 80+% full, which I would not allow anyway. Incidentally I always clear Temp Int files before feragging - using CCleaner - which is how I came by Defraggler. As I said I only Defraggled once and am unlikely to do it again. I just hope this one Defraggling can't have done any harm, can it?

Hello all After running a weekly Windows defrag on my one year old VAIO latop running Windows Vista Home - I wondered whether the Windows defrag was actually doing anything. The Defraggler analysis showed 55% fragmentation so I ran a defrag which reduced this to 45%, which as I said in a previous post, seemed rather pointless. If anything the system seems jerkier. I always run CCleaner before defragging to make the job easier. I cannot think that this 45% remianing consists of locked or immovavble system files - but since all I keep on Drive C is mainly programs perhaps this is so. Could it be so?

Thank you Richard S Does that mean that you would recommend Defraggling indidvidual files from the 45% LEFT AFTER THE FIRST ATTEMPT? Or could it be that this 45% are all "locked" system files?

Hello I use a Sony Vaio NS11 laptop, OS Vista home premium with 4GB RAM, and was not convinced that the Windows defragmenter was doing anything, having scheduled it for once weekly over the 14 months I have owned this PC. Having been impressed by CCleaner, I thought I would anylyse the hard drive with Defraggler which showed 55% fragmentation, which confirmed my fear that Windows wasn'r doing its job. I ran the standard defragmentation which resulted in a measly reduction of frangemst to 45%. This seemed poor. I thought I would share my thoughts rather than try defragmenting again - which may be harmful to the system. Regards Humph