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Have you not used a Windows computer in 10+ years? > defragmentation No longer an issue. I'm honestly not up to date on why not, but nobody ever mentions it a
by ufmace 8y ago
Have you not used a Windows computer in 10+ years?
> defragmentation
No longer an issue. I'm honestly not up to date on why not, but nobody ever mentions it anymore.
> Windows registry issues
What issues? I haven't gone into the registry for anything in a long time.
> malware, adware
Not an issue as long as you run a modern browser and avoid going to sketchy websites and installing random things from them.
If you haven't used Windows since early XP, it's really worth another try. It's a whole lot better now.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y agoA point to add about malware. Make sure your user account your use is a standard one and not an Administrator account. That goes a long way towards cutting down on potential malware.
- jdmichal 8y agoWindows Vista started running defragmentation as a background process nightly. Then SSDs happened.
- deergomoo 8y ago> No longer an issue. I'm honestly not up to date on why not, but nobody ever mentions it anymore. SSDs, primarily. Depending on who you ask, defragging an SSD ranges between only slightly beneficial, totally pointless, and actively harmful.
- wtallis 8y ago> Depending on who you ask, defragging an SSD ranges between only slightly beneficial, totally pointless, and actively harmful. Fragmentation will slow down your SSD. For non-server workloads, the SSD is very likely still plenty fast. Running a hard drive defragging program on your SSD will only address one of the two forms of fragmentation that SSDs are subject to, and thus will not help performance much. It will also unnecessarily burn through some of the SSD's limited write endurance, but that is almost never worth worrying about.