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 ...

We recently highlighted personal development blogger Dragos Roua's suggestion to treat yourself as a computer to become the best version of yourself. One of his suggestions: Defrag your mind. Here's a ...

Is your computer or laptop running slow? The reason for this might be the fragmentation of the files on your hard disk. This is where a defragmentation software kicks in and takes care of the clumps ...

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 ...

I first became familiar with Diskeeper in the mid-1990s. Windows NT had just started to become a mainstream operating system, but Microsoft didn't provide a solution for keeping Windows NT systems ...

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 ...

Diskeeper is an institution in the defragmentation software arena. It was the first defragmentation software that I ran into many years ago and it continues to live up to expectations. Like everything ...

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