If you have been working on your Windows computer for long, you have undoubtedly noticed that it gets slow with time. This can be caused by a congested hard disk, fragmented data, and too many ...

QUESTION: When I defragment the hard disk on my Windows 98se IBM ThinkPad, I cannot achieve anything better than 15 per cent fragmentation. I used to achieve 7- to 8-per-cent. Is 15 per cent adequate?

File fragmentation is one of the constants of Microsoft’s, and other, operating systems. On a brand-new drive, the first files written are all written to contiguous parts of the drive, making for the ...

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: ...

You see, when you work with your hard drive – be it for a simple task like copy-pasting a file or to create a new one or to just access it – you are asking the disk to physically access data stored on ...

Does anyone know how to setup the disk defragmenter so that I can have it run when I boot up my PC? My hard drive is fragmented really badly, but it seems that if I run it after I log on, a lot of ...

There are times when disk defragmention may come to your system's help. Read Less When you save a file onto your PC, you can see it at one point on the screen and can double click on it to open it or ...

In today’s fast paced world of corporate America, who doesn’t want the highest disk performance they can have? With the constant advancements in CPU technology, servers and workstations continue to ...

When we last left our intrepid blogger (way back on Friday), he’d pointed the finger at Vista’s Disk Defragmenter and cried, “J’accuse!” To recap, my otherwise blazing PC was suffering from ...

Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...