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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This excellent defragger has lots of options and smarts…and it actually improves SSD performance (at the expense of a large number of writes). With smarter file systems and faster disks and PCs, file ...

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 ...

Small businesses, arguably more than any other type of business, depend on efficiency and organization. The rate or progress of work done in an organization can grind to a halt when employees can't ...

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 ...

Title says it all....we are wanting to defrag the NT workstation (NT 4.00.1381), but it doesn't come with a defrag utility. <BR><BR>I see third-party ones all over, but I know better than to just ...

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 ...

Diskeeper real time disk defragment software eases data center management by automating defragmentation process Peak Performance has become a marketing buzzword in the IT world, but overloaded data ...

It’s been a while since I defragged — years, probably, because these days for a number of reasons computers don’t really need to. But perhaps it is we who need to defrag. And what better way to defrag ...

I've got a trial copy of version 6.5 of O&O defrag and I was wondering how to defrag locked files (like the MFT, pagefile, and hibernation file). In the help file, it says something about setting up a ...