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Re:Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down by blahyawnblah on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @11:52AM (#12846870)
Any version of Windows after I think XP kind of does defragging automatically. At least to the point where the user is told it isn't necessary to do manually.
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Re:Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down by rplst8 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:00PM (#12849074)
I think this was a feature of NTFS over FAT32 - not an OS level feature. XP was the first home oriented OS to support NTFS natively.
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Re:Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down by brassic on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:22PM (#12849231)
When NTFS was first released Microsoft claimed it was so awesome it didn't need defragging. In later releases of Windows NT they added a defragger. By around the time of XP this was automatically scheduled to run in the background.

tldr: NTFS does a better job of avoiding fragmentation than FAT, but both need defragging.

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