Although many users have heard the term “defragging a drive,” a surprising number don’t know why it’s necessary or how to do it. Fortunately, this built-in Microsoft Windows tool is small, effective ...

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 ...

How often should you defrag a drive? I know you are suppose to after you move, use, change, or add a large number of files, but at what point does defragging a drive cause more wear and tear than it's ...

i have 3 partitions and the first two (OS and documents) defrag perfectly with no problems. They have 8gb and 5 gb respectively. However, my big e drive doesn't defragment. I contains all my games, ...

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 ...

“We've combined the solutions to the most common PC problems and put them all in a single, easy-to-use, automated software product,” said Chris Cope, CEO of SlimWare Utilities. “This new version ...

With the business world’s continued reliance on computers to sustain daily operations comes the increasing importance of maintaining the “health” of those processors in which companies place their ...

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...

Q: I have a Windows 10 computer, and the defragmenter command has stopped working on it. I tried running it as an administrator, but it still would not run. I also tried going to the C drive to ...

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 ...

Much as everyone loves Microsoft’s Windows 7, not everyone has made the move yet. Plenty of folks are clinging to Windows XP for dear life, while others just didn’t see enough reason to upgrade from ...