# O&O Defrag

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/o-o-defrag/34251
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2025-12-27T23:27:30Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @ParkerS — 2025-12-27T23:27:30Z

Hiya,

What is the safety of using the paid O&O products?

Specifically I am looking into O&O Defrag.

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## Post 2 by @anon63378630 — 2025-12-27T23:34:52Z

Why not just use the built in Windows defragment feature?

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## Post 3 by @fria — 2025-12-27T23:37:01Z

You should use the built in Windows defrag utility:

> **[Defragment / optimize your data drives in Windows - Microsoft Support](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/defragment-optimize-your-data-drives-in-windows-54d4fed1-c96e-46db-b843-8c6b34bd27a4)**
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> Learn how to use Manage and Optimize Drives to keep your disk and data drives defragmented and at top performance in Windows.

I’m reading the O&O website and they say they defrag SSDs, this is really bad and will kill your SSD very quickly and doesn’t do anything to speed it up.

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## Post 4 by @anon19752758 — 2025-12-29T09:40:19Z

Maybe that is part of their business model lol.

If you buy O&O Defrag first and destroy your SSDs with it you then need to recover the files and buy O&O DiskRecovery.

In that tool you probably get an ad for O&O DiskImage to ensure that this won’t happen again in the future.

So it wouldn’t surprise me if they recommend SSD defrag on purpose.

But anyways: **stay away from that tool** and probably from **all O&O tools**.