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: ...

Which defrag program are you using? Some commercial defraggers (like Diskeeper) will allow you to schedule a boot time defrag. The computer will run the defrag upon the next reboot. No boot floppies ...

A good example of this is with System Mechanic’s disk defragmenter. In addition to viewing the level of fragmentation in a graphic, you can also choose to see a report that gives you a better view of ...