My computer does more while I sleep than a lot of people get done all day long. Each night my computer gets a defrag and backup. I use the Task Scheduler that is built into Windows. It runs a defrag at 1am and a backup at 3am.
To get to the schedule click Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Scheduled Tasks. You can add any program as a task to run at a specific time. To defrag my drive I run DEFRAG.EXE with an added parameter to indicate the drive I want defragged. It looks like this
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DEFRAG.EXE C:
When I get up, everthing is finished. My computers runs more efficently all day long.
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