Filling up your hard drive can significantly downgrade performance, and one good way to help address that problem is to optimize or defragment that drive. In this article, we'll show you how to ...

The visualization was a big part of it, that Windows app depicting a hard drive slowly transforming from messy navy to a cleaned-up sky blue via segments that became red as they were picked up.

Then you can untick Run on a schedule (recommended), and click Ok. To automatically defragment your hard drive, you need to schedule the defragmentation. Fortunately, there is an in-built option ...

Defragmenting, of course, is the process of reorganizing all data on a hard-disk drive so that each file is arranged into a single uninterrupted, or contiguous, location on the disk. Many system ...

While many still believe that defragmenting hard-disk drives keeps PCs operating at peak performance, the concept of defrag is behind the times. With PCs and servers containing faster-RPM hard ...