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 ...

Most people think of disk defragmentation as a process that involves gathering and reordering pieces of data files that have been scattered on a hard drive. The fragments are moved around, like the ...

Having computer problems? Here is how to defragment a hard drive or trim an SSD in Windows so you can get your PC back in ...

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 ...

Diskeeper real time disk defragment software eases data center management by automating defragmentation process Peak Performance has become a marketing buzzword in the IT world, but overloaded data ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laptop hard drives are prone to the same defragmenting risks as desktop computers, except a few factors change in the severity of the risks. If you're using the ...

Even with today's hard drives packing storage by the tens of gigabytes, performance can become anemic from the fragmentation of applications, system files and data over time. Defragmenting disks — and ...

Q: I have a Windows 10 computer, and the defragmenter command has stopped working on it. I tried running it as an administrator, but it still would not run. I also tried going to the C drive to ...