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: ...
It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down with age. Disks fill up with the detritus of use, from old file fragments to the echoes of programs that once lived but are now remembered ...
whenever i run scan-disk or try to defrag, the drive makes running sounds but is held up at the very beginning of each process. what drive diagnostic tools ...