I'm glad to hear that someone else defrags frequently! Had me frightened for a moment that I was doing something harmful to the computer... Since everyone I have heard of who defragments every six months to a year has so much trouble and takes so much time to get done, I minimally, defrag every week--sometimes every day... Mainly because I do so much educational surfing and reading, etc, etc, that i figure the more I defrag the less confused my disks are, Donna P. ----- Original Message ----- From: Howard To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:58 PM Subject: [triadtechtalk] Re: Defrag causes wear to HDD? I defrag and optimize to run faster EVERY NIGHT and have never had a problem. The oftener it is done, the less it has to optimize. Howard VIEW ARCHIVES @ //www.freelists.org UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk Contact List Owner - dbcfour@xxxxxxx