I am afraid you don't know what you are talking about.
And frankly your biased comments clearly reveals your true being and your comments of "useless program" and "swingers" is insulting. Your point about defragging is pointless and totally unrelated to Indexing, and your advice to disable Indexing is wrong and irresponsible.
I will start by saying W7, W8, and W10 are NOT XP. Do not assume what was needed for XP is needed for a modern OS. It most likely is not.
With a modern OS like W8.x, Indexing steps into the background when the user is actively using the comptuer so performance is not impacted - especially once Indexing of the drive is complete.
Indexing indexes words, not just files. With an indexed SSD, Search looks in the index file for the word, then points to the file(s) in the indexed locations with that word. With indexing disabled, Search must search all the files every time to find the word - a much slower process. Indexing will NOT shorten the life of SSDs and will not degrade performance. So if YOU want to degrade search performance on your SSDs, by all means disable Indexing. But STOP telling others to disable Indexing because that is BAD ADVICE!
As for defragging, again that has nothing to do with Indexing but your comments clearly show you have no clue what you are talking about. Not to mention, they show your egotistical view of yourself through your denigrating those of us who use Windows Disk Optimize (the Windows defragging tool). With today's modern Windows, I see spending $29 for a program nobody needs is pretty darn foolish. And I see recommending users pay for a 3rd party defragger as more irresponsible advice.
As noted in the very thread you linked to, actual defragging is automatically disabled on SSDs so your point there is pointless. As for your use of a 3rd party defragger, that demonstrates your lack of understanding about defragging. You fail to realize that the second, I say again, the second you start to use your computer after defragging, fragmentation starts all over again as files are opened, modified, replaced, updated, created, and saved again. So any small advantage a more efficient 3rd party defragger provides is quickly negated.
You fail to realize that 3rd party defraggers do NOT work with Windows fetch routines that learn your computing habits that then work with the Windows Disk Optimize to optimize your hard drives based on your usage so your favorite programs load faster, especially at boot. The fact is, when you defrag with a 3rd party defragger, you undo the performance enhancements the fetch routines working with Windows Disk Optimize have put in place! Not good!
Years ago with tiny and slow hard drives, and before every program out there, including Windows could be updated over the Internet, stacking all your programs at the front of the disk made sense. But with today's monster size and very fast hard drives, that does not make sense at all. Windows is constantly updating (changing the size of) files. Our security and office-type programs are frequently updated too. With today's fast seeking drives, it does not matter if files are scattered all over the disk, the drive can find the first segment, regardless its location extremely fast. What matters is the files segments are all stored together and with today's huge drives and Windows Disk Optimizer handles that easily and effectively - without spending extra money or consuming extra disk resources.
IF free space is so low it impacts performance and/or consolidating free space impacts performance, that simply means the USER HAS FAILED to provide enough disk space for Windows and the disk controllers to work in. And if that is the case, the LAST thing you need to do is download and install yet another 3rd party application that takes up even more of that precious free space!!!
Microsoft has entire departments of PhDs and software engineers using super computers to analyze over 20 years of experience and statistical data on defraggers, search and indexing programs with millions and millions of Windows systems. Don't think for second you are smarter or more experienced than them when it comes to giving advice, telling everybody they need to change their Windows defaults, or to buy costly 3rd party apps that aren't needed, or worse, actually degrade performance. :shame2:
There was a reason that other thread was closed long ago.
