Defragging a hard drive was once so common it was almost a rite of passage for computer users. Many different disk utility and maintenance programs offered defragmentation routines as part of their ...

IF you followed last week's introduction to PC springcleaning, your hardware will be clean and hopefully running at peak efficiency, but what about the software? After a few months of use, most PCs ...

Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

With Chinese New Year in full swing, why not also clean up, declutter and speed up your Windows personal computer? Here are eight tips to spruce up your Windows 10 computer. Microsoft's Windows 10 has ...

With all the various crap that most people's computers have running in the background, it's not uncommon to have problems running scandisk or defrag. Here's a quick checklist:<P>Shut down all your ...