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 ...

Most contemporary Windows operating systems will defrag your computer automatically. You can defrag your computer manually if you have Windows 7, 8, 10, or Vista. Defragmenting your computer helps ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've got a trial copy of version 6.5 of O&O defrag and I was wondering how to defrag locked files (like the MFT, pagefile, and hibernation file). In the help file, it says something about setting up a ...

iDefrag is a small utility with the single purpose of running drive defragmentation and optimization. It does this job quite well, and has become a reputable and complete option for people wanting to ...

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 ...

How often you "need" to defrag depends entirely on how hard you thrash your disk, and with what programs. NTFS does fragment less often, and it deals with defragmenting better, but it still depends on ...