I've recently noticed that using defrag on a regular basis (3+ per week) makes a big difference to my pc's performance. ...little bit of a surprise, maybe since a few years ago, I've not downloaded such large files/amounts, like many people.

The thing is windows defrag, it takes long and you can never have it running while you do other things, nevermind in the middle of the day. Obviously you can't have anything else running either, else it restarts 10 times!

So, what other solutions are there to running this regularly?

You shouldn't realy need to defrag that much ............Do you run scandisk aswell ?
if you want to run scandisk and defrag and get fed up with it restarting try running in safe mode.

hope this helps

I think that is going over the top a bit to run it that much. My pc is lucky if it gets defragged once every 3 months.

Ooooooo jeff, you and me replying at the same moment..... love you darling...