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 ...

Defrag is a very common term tossed around in techie forms and recommended by Geek Squad every time your computer slows or crashes. So what defrag it really? To examine defrag we must start at the ...

Disktrix's $30 utility lets you defragment hard drives and other storage devices a little or a lot--and view the contents of individual drive clusters, among other options. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

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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: ...

Does anyone know how to setup the disk defragmenter so that I can have it run when I boot up my PC? My hard drive is fragmented really badly, but it seems that if I run it after I log on, a lot of ...

When it come to disk fragmentation, a small amount of proactive maintenance can have a big impact on help desk call volumes. Help desk systems aren’t the only way to reduce the support workload. Staff ...

In today’s fast paced world of corporate America, who doesn’t want the highest disk performance they can have? With the constant advancements in CPU technology, servers and workstations continue to ...

It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down with age. Disks fill up with the detritus of use, from old file fragments to the echoes of programs that once lived but are now remembered ...

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 ...