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: ...

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 ...

Are you pulling out your hair because your computer doesn't run as quickly as when you first bought it? - You might just need to do a little spring cleaning. Not on the outside, but the little nooks ...

It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down with age. Disks fill up with the detritus of use, from old file fragments to the echoes of programs that once lived but are now remembered ...

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 ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

In these days of fast, inexpensive, high-capacity hard drives, IT managers may wonder whether disk defragmentation is still worth bothering with. Defragmenters do have benefits in specific areas, ...

my hard drives are in desperate need of a defrag, but it keeps giving me that 'drive contents changed, restarting' message. <BR><BR>i'm using 98se and everything is closed except explorer and systray, ...

If you’re encountering the storage issue displaying the message ERROR DISK TOO FRAGMENTED with code 0x0000012E on your Windows 11/10 computer, then this post is ...