I know this rule used to be very important back when Hard drives were not as huge as what we have these days. But does the rule still hold true? Let's say you have a 1TB hard drive so 25% of that would be 250GB. 250GB is still pretty big if you ask me and giving up that amount of space for defragmentation still seems excessive. More so if you have a 2TB hard drive where you'd be giving up 500GB of hard drive space.
it isnt a rule, more of a guideline. The more full the disk is the harder it will be to defrag, because the defrag app needs some space to work with. Personally as long as you have SOME free space (and more than a few hundred MBs, say 10GB at least) you should be fine.
By the way, when Microsoft stops support for Windows 7 next year does that mean we won't receive any system updates anymore? Let's say I do a reinstall some time next year, does that mean I won't receive any of the previous system updates either? If so Microsoft are being huge dicks about this.
end of mainstream support means no new features or minor bug fixes. It will enter a period of extended support, meaning the only new updates provided will be fixes for serious bugs or security fixes. Existing updates will remain available.
Thanks for the reply loony and one less burden to worry about then BTW, I just noticed I posted the question on the wrong topic...