Most contemporary Windows operating systems will defrag your computer automatically. You can defrag your computer manually if you have Windows 7, 8, 10, or Vista. Defragmenting your computer helps ...

For decades, desktop and laptop owners have been told to defragment their hard drives to get the best performance, especially on Windows-based PCs. Defragging reorganizes the drive so the operating ...

Defragging a hard drive was once so common it was almost a rite of passage for computer users. Many different disk utility and maintenance programs offered defragmentation routines as part of their ...

Optimize your computer's performance and say goodbye to the frustration of a slow system. (Photo: Getty) Did it feel like this article took forever to load? Then you're probably the owner of a slow ...

Disktrix's $30 utility lets you defragment hard drives and other storage devices a little or a lot--and view the contents of individual drive clusters, among other options. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

In a perfect world our computers would be able to maintain clean hard drives through self cleaning and eradicate any problems without our intervention. As we are all aware this is not a perfect world ...