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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Defragmentation actively harms SSDs. Flash memory cells can only handle a limited number of write cycles before they wear out. Each time you defragment, you're forcing the drive to rewrite massive ...

my hard drives are in desperate need of a defrag, but it keeps giving me that 'drive contents changed, restarting' message. <BR><BR>i'm using 98se and everything is closed except explorer and systray, ...

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 ...

As subject. I 've mounted a large disk as a folder on my C drive but I'm not able to defragment the folder as only disks show up in my defragmenter (diskeeper). <BR>Are there any programs suitable for ...

Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...

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: ...