The Disk Defragmenter in Windows is automatically scheduled to run at 1.00 am, by default, which means that you don’t really need to run it manually. But if you find that you are unable to manually ...

Imagine the following: you create a word document and save it. The document is split into tiny bits and accessed as such. At first, the bits are stored next to each other — the file is saved in a ...

Nicole Cozma has an affinity for all things tech, but also dabbles in amateur photography. Based on Florida's Suncoast, she enjoys being a spectator to superb sunsets and lightning storms. Windows 7 ...

Windows XP comes with Disk Defragmenter, which is a slimmed down version of Executive Software’s Diskeeper disk defragmentation program. This utility is accessible via the Computer Management ...

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a time where inefficiencies are being systematically removed, significant inefficiencies still remain in the defragmenting of large disks and this must be ...

No matter how sophisticated your RAID hardware is or how fast your disk devices are, servers that actively write and delete files slow to a crawl without routine disk defragmentation. Windows 2000 ...

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 ...

The iPod stores music on a hard drive, right? And with any system, an excessively fragmented hard drive means a slow system. An old thread on the iPod Hacks forum discusses speeding up your iPod with ...

A few posts back I fingered Vista Disk Defragmenter for running at inappropriate times (namely, while I was working) and slowing my system to a crawl in the process. What I neglected to do, as reader ...

For the last couple months I’ve been troubleshooting a vexing problem on my new quad-core https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Hewlett-Packard+Company.html desktop: Roughly ...

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: ...