Do you defrag?

Dove, dual core refers to the processing unit--we're talking about the storage unit.  If a processor is an engine, a hard drive is a gas tank.  

It's defragging the paging file that does the trick for me.

Whatever, it's fast enough with high speed Internet. It seems fast enough like that without getting onto the Internet, too. I'm good. It must be an automatic defragger and most of the stuff I want to save is on a flash, anyway. I'm not THAT kind of scientist! *runs away screaming*

It's defragging the paging file that does the trick for me.

Any time I set up a system I configure the paging file to be a static size (on XP anyway).  Never gets fragmented that way.

Defragging your hard drive will be a thing of the past as Solid State drives become the dominant choice in Data storage and transfer.

I have one now operating as my main storage drive and I think they're just great.  

I use JKdefrag. Since my HD wasn't ever really slow, it doesn't make that big of a difference.

It may be me but I cannot see why having a solid state drive will prevent storage fragmentation.

In my experience fragmentation becomes more of a problem when the disk is more than 90% full and the amount of RAM is low as the processor struggles to find sufficient space to page and swap. A fixed pre-allocated page file always seemed a good idea to me especially if it was much bigger than the physical RAM. Blimey this has taken me right back to the beginning of my career in IT lol. 

I use JKdefrag. Since my HD wasn't ever really slow, it doesn't make that big of a difference.

Very good defragger - try MyDefrag too - its the updated JKdefrag - http://www.mydefrag.com/

It may be me but I cannot see why having a solid state drive will prevent storage fragmentation.

AFAIK an SSD will still be fragmented, it just doesn't matter as it doesn't store things on moving platters where location matters, i.e. it should take the same time to retrieve from anywhere on the SSD, whereas on a normal hard drive it takes time to move around the platters, so files should all be in the same place on the drive,

Thanks Zombie that makes sense. 

That's a rather PERSONAL question, isn't it?

...but yes, I do. I rather enjoy it.

I'm like Casper - clean my files and cookies, every other day, run virus scans regular and cleanup/defrag often.

I often wondered about registry cleaning but there are so many fake programs out there I wouldn't know where to start!  And what benefit does that have anyway?  I'd also be too scared of crashing my computer lol.