Plenty of people have defragmentation enabled as part of routine PC maintenance, and years ago, that was solid advice. When hard disk drives (HDDs) were standard, defragmentation could speed up your ...

One of the truisms of NetWare is that the traditional storage system has no need of defragmentation. In a desktop operating system (such as DOS or Windows), file storage blocks become scattered around ...

A new memory defragmentation technique helps clean up pages containing only a few small objects. Memory defragmentation is a subject which has appeared often in kernel discussions – even if no ...

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: ...

When we last left our intrepid blogger (way back on Friday), he’d pointed the finger at Vista’s Disk Defragmenter and cried, “J’accuse!“ To recap, my otherwise blazing PC was suffering from ...

my hard drives are in desperate need of a defrag, but it keeps giving me that 'drive contents changed, restarting' message. <BR><BR>i'm using 98se and everything is closed except explorer and systray, ...