Vista auto defrag

[tigersty1e]

My system is never idle. I only use it to game and when I need to actually do something, so I turned off the auto defrag and just run the defrag when I feel it should be done.

I've read of something in Vista that it changes the data on your hard drive of your most used programs to the fastest part of the hard drive platter. By disabling the auto defrag, did I essentially disable this feature as well?

 

[Jeff7181]

Not exactly... when you do run defrag it will prioritize the information on the hard drive... it just won't happen until you tell it to defragment.

 

[Cutthroat]

My machine is never idle either, it runs F@H 24/7 and gaming etc. The auto defrag is set to happen every Wed at 1 AM, I am usually gaming at the time with F@H running in the background. It still does the defrag in the background, and I usually never even notice (unless I'm playing Crysis or FSX).

I'm not 100% sure, but I think Vista has decided to defrag on it's own a couple of times when it needed to, but not at the scheduled time.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: Cutthroat
My machine is never idle either, it runs F@H 24/7 and gaming etc. The auto defrag is set to happen every Wed at 1 AM, I am usually gaming at the time with F@H running in the background. It still does the defrag in the background, and I usually never even notice (unless I'm playing Crysis or FSX).

I'm not 100% sure, but I think Vista has decided to defrag on it's own a couple of times when it needed to, but not at the scheduled time.

You can disable Auto defrag,disable Windows Defender real time scan(set mine to scan once a week),disable Indexing as well if you don't use it.

You'll find you HD will be idle a lot more with the above disabled.

 

[tigersty1e]

Originally posted by: Cutthroat
My machine is never idle either, it runs F@H 24/7 and gaming etc. The auto defrag is set to happen every Wed at 1 AM, I am usually gaming at the time with F@H running in the background. It still does the defrag in the background, and I usually never even notice (unless I'm playing Crysis or FSX).

I'm not 100% sure, but I think Vista has decided to defrag on it's own a couple of times when it needed to, but not at the scheduled time.

So you Fold at the same time you game? Folding uses 100% of the cpu, no?

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
So you Fold at the same time you game? Folding uses 100% of the cpu, no?

Yes it does, but it is also hardwired to run at a lower priority than your other programs so it doesn't interfere. This is true on all versions, including those for Linux and OSX.

 

[Cutthroat]

Yeah the Folding CPU client can run while I game, it will only use CPU cycles which are available to it, I have to shut down the GPU client though, it causes games to stutter.