Select Defragment and Optimize Drives. Select the disk drive you want to optimize. Select Optimize. Once the defragmentation process is done, you will see OK in the Current status column. Windows 8.1 ...

Most contemporary Windows operating systems will defrag your computer automatically. You can defrag your computer manually if you have Windows 7, 8, 10, or Vista. Defragmenting your computer helps ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is making a very serious strategic error in fragmenting its Windows 8 ecosystem by supporting two fundamentally incompatible versions of its ...

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 ...

Defragmentation software for Windows can improve your PC’s speed by reorganizing fragmented data on your hard drive. Fragmentation occurs when files are divided into smaller parts and dispersed over ...

Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...

I recently moved to W8.1 and in the process of searching for defrag information about HDDs, I came across this mention of a SSD defrag bug in W8.1. Yes, it appears it still is. I just did a clean ...