When I defrag my computer should I do it on each user account?

Question

When I defragment my computer I am never sure whether once will do it or if I should do it on each user account. I have the administrator account and there are two other accounts.

Do I need to defrag all of them or will just doing it in one account work for the entire computer?

Answer 1

defragging affects the information on the hard drive, not the information accessable to each individual.

So, defragging once will do fine.

Answer 2

When you defrag, you're doing it at a disk level, not a user level. You're defragmenting the entire disk. On some systems, only administrators (who have access to the whole drive) are allowed to defrag.

You're doing a good thing for all that use your machine

Answer 3

when doing a defragment on the frist user account befor you click on defragment click on
analyze then that will analyze your computer and let you know if there is any need to defragment it so for all your other acount's just open the defragment and click on analyze you will get a report back when the analyze is done and it will tell you if you need to defragment always click on the analyze tab frist

Answer 4

You need to defrag EACH hard drive separately. It doesn't matter about different user accounts.

Answer 5

It defrags all the data on the hard drive. That includes all the accounts. So, no, you don't have to do it on the other accounts.

Answer 6

You only need to do it on one account.

The best choice is the Administrator account.

Have fun and be safe.

Answer 7

Just one time.

Answer 8

just do it once and it will take care of ALL files

Answer 9

nope, just do it once.

Answer 10

no.