Last week we asked you to share your favorite disk defragmenter, and after we rounded up the top contenders, you cast your votes to crown the most popular of the bunch. Get daily tips, tricks, and ...

Want to keep your system running smoothly? The more fragmented your hard drive becomes, the harder–and slower–it works. And over time, a hard drive can be mighty fragmented indeed. Piriform’s ...

A fragmented hard drive is a slow hard drive. If you want your system to run at peak performance, you should run a "defragger" from time to time. Defraggler is a free defragmentation utility that ...

If you don't have an SSD, defragmenting your hard drive can keep your hard drive optimized for faster read and write times. If you find your games suddenly loading slower than they used to, your ...

That’s it. If you want disk defragmentation, you’ll need to get it from another Piriform Ltd. product called Defraggler. If you want to recover lost files, then you’ll need Recuva. All of these are ...

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: ...

No matter how sophisticated your RAID hardware is or how fast your disk devices are, servers that actively write and delete files slow to a crawl without routine disk defragmentation. Windows 2000 ...

Software company Piriform may not be a household name, but the company has been offering a handful of popular, powerful, and free apps for Windows computers for years. Piriform is the developer behind ...

It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down with age. Disks fill up with the detritus of use, from old file fragments to the echoes of programs that once lived but are now remembered ...

Old file fragments and registry detritus can slow down your Windows PC. We tested three well-known disk cleaners to see if they could help. It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down ...