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 ...

"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...

Most people think of disk defragmentation as a process that involves gathering and reordering pieces of data files that have been scattered on a hard drive. The fragments are moved around, like the ...

First of all, it sure does suck that I'm up at 7:45am. I sure am a spoiled college kid where classes usually start at 10am.<BR><BR>Now, I tried to defrag my harddrive the other day, and it analyzed my ...

Q: I have an Acer Aspire 3680 laptop operating Vista Premium. It has an 80-gigabyte hard drive. I have 3.96 gigabytes of 33.5 gigabytes on the C: drive available and 21.9 gigabytes of the 33.2 on the ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

If Windows built-in defragger isn’t enough for you, Smart Defrag 3 is a feature-packed replacement. Though the benefits of defragging your hard drive are minimal in this day and age, after long ...

A few days ago, the Tech Trick of the day was about disk defragmentation and how this in-built tool can help your computer run faster. But if you feel you’ll forget to click on that defrag tool every ...