I prefer Coke Zero and Crunchy Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos
In it's perpetual effort to add useless, unneeded features while leaving
ones out that may actually do someone some good, the Coke-drinking,
Cheeto-munching programmers at Microsoft have added a utility that
automatically defragments your
Some of what you are saying is true and some is not. Indeed windows does
schedule a weekly defrag of your hard drives . If one of your drives is
an SSD you should disable it for that drive and only that drive. It is
useful to keep a conventional hard drive tuned and has no affect on
From Windows 7 onward (maybe even in Vista but I haven't checked),
Windows turns off the auto defrag for SSD drives so you do not need to
worry. You can also set the time that the auto defrag of conventional
drives (it defaults to 2am on Wednesdays). I usually nudge it back to 3am.
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Maybe it's supposed to, but it didn't disable the auto-defrag on my SSD. I
don't know how it would know which drives were SSD (I have two, a primary
and a backup, plus a regular SATA drive) unless it is smart enough to
detect the drive type.
The way this came up is that DDUtil was disconnecting
Hi Steve
Its easy to detect ssds when it inquires about the rotation speed into,
SSDs report 0. I haven't seen one yet that it hasn't detected properly
but maybe there are old components in the mix (old SSDs, old system
updates, etc.).
It does do it properly in most cases (I build a lot of
12:51 PM
To: Neal
Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Auto Defrag from Microsoft
Maybe it's supposed to, but it didn't disable the auto-defrag on my SSD. I
don't know how it would know which drives were SSD (I have two, a primary
and a backup, plus a regular SATA drive) unless
...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of W6SDM
Steve
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 12:51 PM
To: Neal
Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Auto Defrag from Microsoft
Maybe it's supposed to, but it didn't disable the auto-defrag on my SSD. I
don't know how it would know which drives were SSD
]
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 1:23 PM
To: Steve Nance
Cc: 'W6SDM Steve'; flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Auto Defrag from Microsoft
There is something called a bootloader defrag that I have seen done by
these performance utilities that grabs up all the stuff needed to get
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Steve
Nance
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 1:28 PM
To: 'Neal Campbell'
Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz; 'W6SDM Steve'
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Auto Defrag from Microsoft
Neal - you're probably right as the action is definitely tied to the
schedule
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