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 ...

QUESTION: When I defragment the hard disk on my Windows 98se IBM ThinkPad, I cannot achieve anything better than 15 per cent fragmentation. I used to achieve 7- to 8-per-cent. Is 15 per cent adequate?

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a time where inefficiencies are being systematically removed, significant inefficiencies still remain in the defragmenting of large disks and this must be ...

For many companies, sluggish computer performance and frequent outlays of money to upgrade workstations are just a part of life. But some experts say it doesn't have to be that way. Application ...

I am sure many of you have been told in the past to defrag your hard drives when you have noticed a slow down on your computer. You may have followed the advice and defragged your hard drive, and ...

The built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter has been much improved upon, and more so in Windows 11/10, and is considered to be much better than its predecessors. The defrag engine and the manageability of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It’s an old myth that still crops up from time to time: if you have a disk with plenty of free space, you don’t need to defragment that disk. This is one of those bits of information that would ...

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 ...