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Can I Defrag an SSD in Windows XP?

Is there a program or a way to defrag an SSD drive in Windows XP, to increase performance? My computer is a dog after having an SSD for about 2 months. I looked at the drive in XP's defragment tool and the drive is all red.
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Crash84
17th May 2011
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Well realistically
Any Defraging Utility will do but with SSD drives you shouldn't make a habit of defraging them. They have a limited number of Writes possible so if the drive is being heavily Fragmented I would be looking at what is going wrong with the OS here.

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OH Smeg
17th May 2011
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