Moving on from that roughly how does it take most of you?

[Yes, I am asking this because I'm currently trying to defrag mine.]

I defrag the server's drives about every month or so. The length of time a defrag takes really depends on how much space on your drives you're using. My 30GB usually takes about 2 hours, and the 80GB usually just runs through the night.

SH

That was when the computer was being an utter bastard, though. Nere's suggestion of once a month is pretty good; my dad tends to do it once every three. I think how frequently you defrag affects the length of time it takes as well as the size of the drive; I could be wrong, though. If you haven't defragged for eons, for example, it could tak a while.

Dragomorph
"Actually, what I know about a computer's internal works would fit on the head of a pin, but whatever."

On my 7.5 gig drive it took half a day and it freed up 32 megs. I'm not sure what it was supposed to do, but I'm never going to bother with it again.

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Yes I am.