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Hello,

My newly build system uses an 1 TB M.2 drive along with a 1TB SSD. With mechanical drives I've always run the Windows Disk Clean Up utility from time to time. I know defragging is a no-no with SSD's, but i'm wondering if running Disk Clean Up is still a good idea?

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Make sure disk defragmentation is not set up to run as a scheduled task. On my Windows 8.1 Pro system, I believe it was scheduled to run once per week as a default task. I left it that way as I don't have any SSDs yet. You can go to your search bar and type in Task Scheduler to see what tasks are scheduled to run and when.
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Disk Cleanup is fine.
It simply deletes things.
 
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Make sure disk defragmentation is not set up to run as a scheduled task. On my Windows 8.1 Pro system, I believe it was scheduled to run once per week as a default task. I left it that way as I don't have any SSDs yet. You can go to your search bar and type in Task Scheduler to see what tasks are scheduled to run and when.
 
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Actually, Win 7 and later know the difference, and won't actually "defrag" an SSD.
 
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That's good to know ^^^, as I probably wouldn't remember to go in and cancel the task when I do get a SSD.

Edit: I wasn't thinking clearly. I won't have to cancel the task when I get a SSD. I will leave it scheduled so it can defrag my secondary drive (HDD).
 
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