Nicole Cozma has an affinity for all things tech, but also dabbles in amateur photography. Based on Florida's Suncoast, she enjoys being a spectator to superb sunsets and lightning storms. Windows 7 ...

Tightening up the sectors on a drive storing hundreds of gigabytes may or may not boost your PC's performance, but it could extend your drive's life expectancy. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

Glarysoft Disk SpeedUp is a completely free tool for analyzing, defragmenting, and optimizing disk space quickly and enhancing computer performance. The freeware is easy to use, without any toolbar or ...

Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or ...

Auslogics Disk Defrag is an upgrade from the built-in Windows disk defragmenter. Free, fast, and thorough, it can defrag whole disks or individual files and folders, on schedule or on demand. You can ...

The Windows disk defragmenter utility is scheduled to work in the background. The Disk Defragmenter runs as a low priority task in the background without affecting the performance of the computer. It ...

Defragment your hard disk to increase performance. Is your PC acting sluggish, and you don’t know why? The problemmay be that your hard disk is defragmented, slowing down the timeit takes your ...

Q: My computer has been sluggish lately. It seems to start up all right, but it takes forever to open and save documents. Any ideas of what may be the problem and how I can fix it? A: It could be a ...

It’s an old myth that still crops up from time to time: if you have a disk with plenty of free space, you don’t need to defragment that disk. This is one of those bits of information that would ...