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 ...

In this example, we assume you want to defrag 4 drives. You need to edit the list to match the drives that you want to defragment using the batch file. If you want to defrag just one drive, then ...

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 ...

We still get quite a few questions about when and how to optimize storage devices. Easy answer: The care and feeding of storage devices is either taken care of automatically by Windows, or it’s simply ...

DiskTuna is a freeware application that lets you defrag and optimize your computer’s hard drive and increase performance and boost overall speed of your Windows computer. While the built-in Disk ...

The latest Windows 10 update appears to be running the automatic hard drive optimization process more often than it needs to. While this is a necessary part of a hard drive’s upkeep, and letting ...

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 ...

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 ...

How often should you defrag a drive? I know you are suppose to after you move, use, change, or add a large number of files, but at what point does defragging a drive cause more wear and tear than it's ...

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...

Q: I have a Windows 10 computer, and the defragmenter command has stopped working on it. I tried running it as an administrator, but it still would not run. I also tried going to the C drive to ...