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 ...

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 ...

Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

SysInternals’s freeware PageDefrag utility does what the built-in Win 2000 defragger can’t – it defragments the paging file and registry hives. You’ll still need to reboot (once), but you won’t have ...

A fragmented hard drive is a slow hard drive. If you want your system to run at peak performance, you should run a "defragger" from time to time. Defraggler is a free defragmentation utility that ...

Windows XP comes with Disk Defragmenter, which is a slimmed down version of Executive Software’s Diskeeper disk defragmentation program. This utility is accessible via the Computer Management ...

Most people think of disk defragmentation as a process that involves gathering and reordering pieces of data files that have been scattered on a hard drive. The fragments are moved around, like the ...

Title says it all....we are wanting to defrag the NT workstation (NT 4.00.1381), but it doesn't come with a defrag utility. <BR><BR>I see third-party ones all over, but I know better than to just ...

Q: It seems the Cache. dat file in my Google Earth directory keeps preventing the defragmentation oper- ation from proceeding on my Windows XP Professional system. I have uninstalled the program but, ...

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