Imagine the following: you create a word document and save it. The document is split into tiny bits and accessed as such. At first, the bits are stored next to each other — the file is saved in a ...

Although many users have heard the term “defragging a drive,” a surprising number don’t know why it’s necessary or how to do it. Fortunately, this built-in Microsoft Windows tool is small, effective ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...

UltraDefrag is a free, easy-to use-utility that defragments files and optimizes their placement on your hard drive. It sports both a simple but effective Windows graphic interface and a command line ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, desktop and laptop owners have been told to defragment their hard drives to get the best performance, especially on Windows-based PCs. Defragging reorganizes the drive so the operating ...

If, while troubleshooting your PC, a tech-support person says you need to defrag your hard drive, you have my permission to laugh directly in his or her face. In the history of computing, ...

In the Dark Ages of computing, defragmenting a hard disk was something you had to do regularly to keep it running at peak efficiency. Those defragmenter utilities typically included visualizations, ...