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Any version of Windows after I think XP kind of does defragging automatically. At least to the point where the user is told it isn't necessary to do manually.
by blahyawnblah 10y ago
Any version of Windows after I think XP kind of does defragging automatically. At least to the point where the user is told it isn't necessary to do manually.
- rplst8 10y agoI think this was a feature of NTFS over FAT32 - not an OS level feature. XP was the first home oriented OS to support NTFS natively.
- brassic 10y agoWhen NTFS was first released Microsoft claimed it was so awesome it didn't need defragging. In later releases of Windows NT they added a defragger. By around the time of XP this was automatically scheduled to run in the background. tldr: NTFS does a better job of avoiding fragmentation than FAT, but both need defragging.