When it come to disk fragmentation, a small amount of proactive maintenance can have a big impact on help desk call volumes. Help desk systems aren’t the only way to reduce the support workload. Staff ...

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 ...

Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...

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 ...

Occasionally, I run across information that everyone speaks as the truth, yet I can't get a reason why it is true anywhere. This drives me nuts!! I am going nuts now.<BR><BR>I am involved in several ...

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 ...

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: ...

I'm running WinXP and after a few weeks of downloading (lots of stuff), moving large files around and between drives, and installing games and software I noticed a very significant drop in performance ...

Is your hard drive running slow? Learn the common reasons behind sluggish performance and what you can do to speed it up.

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 ...

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 ...