Windows 10: new to windows 10 question about maintenance

new to windows 10 and wondering how often one should run disk clean up and disk defragmenter to keep the computer in top condition as well as virus scans .

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Questions about Automatic Maintenance

Hi,

Kindly reply us with the below information.

• When you say "Automatic Maintenance" are you referring to System maintenance?

If you are referring to System maintenance, you can do on a regular basis,
System maintenance is an ongoing activity, which covers a wide variety of activities, including removing program ,required to keep a computer system running properly.

Defragmentation you can run once a week on each drive. Schedule it to run at a time when the computer is likely to be on.

Thanks & regards.

Mohammed Ali.

 

Questions about Automatic Maintenance

I am not sure if there is a better name for Automatic Maintenance, I am referring to Control Panel > System and Security > Security and Maintenance > Maintenance > Automatic Maintenance.

How I know defragmentation is part of Automatic Maintenance:

• Open Defragmenter.
• Go to Control Panel > System and Security > Security and Maintenance > Maintenance > Automatic Maintenance.
• Start Maintenance.
• Go back to defragmenter, you will see it starts running.

Since Automatic Maintenance will try to run during idle time and defragmentation is part of it, my HDD is being (partially) defragmented everyday. Is it harmful to my HDD?

 

As for disk cleanup Windows 10 by default is set to do this weekly but may do it less frequently or more frequently dependent on usage. Have a look at Disk Properties, Tools, Optimize.

Most Virus apps run in real time now a days so weekly frequent definition updates should be your primary concern.

 

I use ESET SS v10, so I get definition updates at hourly or daily frequency (whenever definition is created or updated by ESET)

Great AV/Firewall, highly recommend it! Greetz

 

Defrag is only needed when using HDD's!

Greetz

 

Optimize in Windows 10 on an SSD runs Trim not defrag.

 

planning on changing the hd to an ssd drive soon but for now it came with a regular hd

 

I run both after installing Windows Updates (twice a month), since they mess up HDD a bit.

 

A very food choice!

Greetz

 

Yep, Windows 10 is a 'self maintaining OS' when run on SSD!

Greetz

 

that's good to know about ssd and windows 10. might get one this weekend, want to do it before the main severe weather season starts to try and make the laptop bullet proof

 

I wouldn't worry about either. What I'd do is run an SFC to determine if your Windows image shipped corrupted. I bring this up because its more common than you think.

 

Defrag - once a month is enough, Disk cleanup - once a month.
It won't however keep your computer in 'top condition'. That is merely a small part. There is more to doing that, like configuring about 100 things in Windows 10 and all your Applications.

I would also increase RAM Memory to 8 GB assuming your specs are right.

"Windows 10 is a 'self maintaining OS' when run on SSD"
Total nonsense, it is not a cure-all.

 

As an HDD user, I do my drive defragging every month or two. It only takes 15-30 minutes depending on the fragmentation, sometimes it only takes me 10 minutes to defrag my drive.