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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Defragging is one of those universally recommended system performance tweaks, but it should not be counted on excessively. It will not speed up a hard drive that is already slow, and it's not worth ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The disk defragmenter in Windows Vista leaves much to be desired. A couple of months ago, I recommended Auslogics’ Disk Defrag as a free alternative. What that program lacks is the ability to defrag ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...