Question on defragging

[Donnie Fisher]

IIRC I've read that windows does its own house cleaning in terms of files, not only defragging, but also physical location placement of files on the platters themselves. The idea being that it knows what files it needs commonly and lays them down in a manner which makes it quicker to access them compared to the likes of straight alphabetical order one after the other.

I cant think the last time I defragged a drive.

 

[chrcoluk]

Yeah windows auto optimises files used during the boot process providing prefetch is enabled in the registry which it is by default, then a scheduled task will run the optimise process based on what the boot prefetch trace logs.