"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...

A fragmented hard drive is a slow hard drive. If you want your system to run at peak performance, you should run a "defragger" from time to time. Defraggler is a free defragmentation utility that ...

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 ...

Windows 8.1 Open the Start menu by clicking on the Windows icon on the taskbar, and type defrag in the search bar. Select Defragment and Optimize Drives. Select the disk drive you want to optimize.

The built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter has been much improved upon, and more so in Windows 11/10, and is considered to be much better than its predecessors. The defrag engine and the manageability of ...

Most contemporary Windows operating systems will defrag your computer automatically. You can defrag your computer manually if you have Windows 7, 8, 10, or Vista. Defragmenting your computer helps ...

Defragmentation software for Windows can improve your PC’s speed by reorganizing fragmented data on your hard drive. Fragmentation occurs when files are divided into smaller parts and dispersed over ...

If you have been working on your Windows computer for long, you have undoubtedly noticed that it gets slow with time. This can be caused by a congested hard disk, fragmented data, and too many ...

You've likely heard before that you should never defragment your SSD. Conventional wisdom says not only do solid state drives not need defragging, doing so would cause unnecessary writes to the drive.

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 ...