I believe disk defragmenter is set to run automatically by default in Windows 7. Click the windows button and type defrag, should give you a window that says if it has scheduled maintenance or not.
If you are like me and leave your PC running almost 24/7, then it would be a good idea to set a schedule for it to work when you normally aren't using it.
Of course you don't have to bother with that if you got an SSD. You can get a 256gb SSD for around $200, and the price has dropped considerably on those in the last 2 years. Used to be around $500 for 256gb SSDs just 2 years ago, and its dropped to under $1 per GB. Right now 1TB SSDs are still outrageously expensive, about $2500 or so.
Last edited by Crowe; March 25th, 2013 at 02:42 AM.
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