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 ...

Defragmentation has certainly solved a lot of problems. Many years ago file fragmentation–the splitting of files into multiple pieces so as to make more of disk space–was found to be the cause of many ...

Simply select the drive you want to analyze, defragment, or optimize and press the appropriate button. The Analyze feature will show you a graphic sector table describing where files reside on the ...

There are few operations to get up and running that are as complex as a computer system. The hardware involved–CPUs, monitors, hard drives and network cabling–is only the beginning. Then there is the ...

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 ...

Back in the bad old days of computing, hard-drive defragmentation was a big deal. You needed a quality third-party “defragger,” and you needed to run it regularly—at least once a month—to ensure ...

i have 3 partitions and the first two (OS and documents) defrag perfectly with no problems. They have 8gb and 5 gb respectively. However, my big e drive doesn't defragment. I contains all my games, ...

It’s been a while since I defragged — years, probably, because these days for a number of reasons computers don’t really need to. But perhaps it is we who need to defrag. And what better way to defrag ...

QMy hard drive gets heavily fragmented after only about two hours, primarily in photo programs. I have to defrag every other day. AA hard drive works differently from a hall closet. In the closet, you ...