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> But if someone ever got closer to filling up the disk in the past, the chances of contiguous gigabytes are much lower. By default, Windows automatically defr
by wcoenen 10mo ago
> But if someone ever got closer to filling up the disk in the past, the chances of contiguous gigabytes are much lower.
By default, Windows automatically defragments filesystems weekly if necessary. It can be configured in the "defragment and optimize drives" dialog.
- pixl97 10mo agoNot 'full' de-fragmentation, Microsoft labs did a study and after 64MB slabs of contiguous files you don't gain much so they don't care about getting gigabytes fully defragmented. https://web.archive.org/web/20100529025623/http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2006/07/10/disk-defragmenter-faq.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20100529025623/http://blogs.tech... old article on the process