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 ...

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: ...

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a compact and fast defragmentation tool that supports both FAT 16/32, and NTFS file systems. It's supplied with advanced disk optimization techniques, which will remedy your ...

Task Scheduler is a tool that allows you to create and automate routine tasks on a Windows 11/10 computer. The native tool is mainly used to run any monitoring tools, and for maintenance tasks such as ...

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 ...

Are you pulling out your hair because your computer doesn't run as quickly as when you first bought it? - You might just need to do a little spring cleaning. Not on the outside, but the little nooks ...

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 ...

Has anyone been able to successfully set up a GPO for a scheduled task for Disk Defragmenter or some other method to having defrag run on all workstations in a domain? Did you have to point a GPO to a ...

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 ...