It’s important to keep your computer running fast as much as possible. One way to accomplish this is with a disk defragmentation. To do this on a Windows machine, open up the Start Menu, then All ...

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 ...

Glarysoft Disk SpeedUp is a completely free tool for analyzing, defragmenting, and optimizing disk space quickly and enhancing computer performance. The freeware is easy to use, without any toolbar or ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared in TechProGuild. If you're supporting the Windows 98 operating system, chances are that you've encountered the mind-numbing problem in which Disk Defragmenter is ...

QUESTION: Whenever I try to defragment my hard disk, my Windows 98 computer locks up. I have to turn it off at the tower and reboot. I recently added the MSN spy sweeper and the AVG free virus ...

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: ...