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 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 ...

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 ...

Title says it all....we are wanting to defrag the NT workstation (NT 4.00.1381), but it doesn't come with a defrag utility. <BR><BR>I see third-party ones all over, but I know better than to just ...

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 ...

One of the simplest ways to make sure your PC runs as efficiently as possible is to defragment your hard disk, and https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,77091 ...

I move an awful lot of large files among disks (both among partitions and physical disks, if it matters) and I'm concerned of having lots of defragmented files.<BR><BR>It's kind of a pain in the ass ...

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...

Microsoft's latest preview of Windows 10 brings new theme-aware splash screens for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps and an improved defrag experience with a new Advanced View. The new theme-aware ...

Plenty of people have defragmentation enabled as part of routine PC maintenance, and years ago, that was solid advice. When hard disk drives (HDDs) were standard, defragmentation could speed up your ...