How Often Does Windows 7 Automatically Defragment a Hard Drive?

Windows 7 automatically defragments once a week.

How often should you defrag your computer Windows 7?

If you’re a normal user (meaning you use your computer for occasional web browsing, email, games, and the like), defragmenting once per month should be fine. If you’re a heavy user, meaning you use the PC eight hours per day for work, you should do it more often, approximately once every two weeks.

Is it necessary to defragment your hard drive everyday?

Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid defragmenting a Solid State Disk Drive. Defragmentation can improve data access performance for HDDs that store information on disk platters, whereas it can cause SSDs that use flash memory to wear out faster.