I move an awful lot of large files among disks (both among partitions and physical disks, if it matters) and I'm concerned of having lots of defragmented files. It's kind of a pain in the ass that ...

If it were up to me, I’d never defragment my PC’s drives. I’m one of those people who prefers to have Windows’ maintenance operations done in the background, without my direct intervention. So it ...

say you have 2 drives stripped. piece 0 & 2 of a file will go on drive 0 and piece 1 & 3 will go on drive 1. pieces 0 & 2 on drive still need to be side by side for max performance and 1 & 3 also need ...

Spread the loveEver feel like your Windows 10 PC is dragging its feet, taking forever to open files or launch applications?

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 ...

Defragmenting your HP laptop is an useful computer maintenance task that restores scattered and disorganized files to improve performance. An HP laptop's hard disk becomes fragmented when you delete, ...

Back in the bad old days of computing, hard-drive defragmentation was a big deal. You needed a quality third-party “defragger,” and you needed to run it regularly—at least once a month—to ensure ...

QUESTION: Defrag works only bit by bit, and it's so slow it would take a whole day to complete. What can I do to speed it up? Hans Schutz ANSWER: Make sure that when you run defrag, there are no ...

Once again my mailbox has been full of questions about subjects like America Online, video files and problems trying to run Windows computer maintenance programs. Here's a sample. Q: I am attempting ...