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 ...

Small businesses, arguably more than any other type of business, depend on efficiency and organization. The rate or progress of work done in an organization can grind to a halt when employees can't ...

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 ...

Although many users have heard the term “defragging a drive,” a surprising number don’t know why it’s necessary or how to do it. Fortunately, this built-in Microsoft Windows tool is small, effective ...

Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

For the last couple months I’ve been troubleshooting a vexing problem on my new quad-core HP desktop: Roughly once per week, the machine would start running as slow as molasses. And I mean slow: ...

It’s an old myth that still crops up from time to time: if you have a disk with plenty of free space, you don’t need to defragment that disk. This is one of those bits of information that would ...

The Disk Defragmenter in Windows is automatically scheduled to run at 1.00 am, by default, which means that you don’t really need to run it manually. But if you find that you are unable to manually ...