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 ...

Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen host this deep dive into the tools used on the tech support show Defrag. Each Defrag Tools show focuses on a specific tool, going deep into a tool's ...

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 ...

This excellent defragger has lots of options and smarts…and it actually improves SSD performance (at the expense of a large number of writes). Note: This review addresses v11 of thesoftware.

Larry Larsen and Andrew Richards do a live version of Defrag Tools with Larry Osterman and answer questions about troubleshooting Windows, talk about WinRT, x86/x64 vs. ARM vs. MIPS vs. ALPHA, and ...

If you want to defragment your disk, you’ll need to resort to Windows’ defragmenting tools. Overall, while Partition Master Professional 3.5 does offer the same tools as the other partition managers I ...

I've run disk defragmenters and utilities like PCTOOLS since the days of DOS 5.0. Back in the day, the FAT file system had an annoying tendency to fragment files into a million pieces if you so much ...