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 ...

i thought one of the advantages of NTFS over FAT was that it didn't fragment? ie, why the need to defrag ntfs at all?<P>i can't think of how defragmenting a hardware raid array would work tho, as the ...

Just do it - because file fragmentation can be a performance killer that can slow even newer systems to a crawl. Although many users have heard the term “defragging a drive,” a surprising number don’t ...

I move an awful lot of large files among disks (both among partitions and physical disks, if it matters) and I'm concerned of having lots of defragmented files.<BR><BR>It's kind of a pain in the ass ...

QUESTION: Defrag works only bit by bit, and it's so slow it would take a whole day to complete. What can I do to speed it up? Hans Schutz ANSWER: Make sure that when you run defrag, there are no ...

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 ...

"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 ...

This article originally appeared in TechProGuild. If you're supporting the Windows 98 operating system, chances are that you've encountered the mind-numbing problem in which Disk Defragmenter is ...

ANSWER: With Windows 98, and all Windows versions in fact, there is almost always something running and that is what is restarting your Defrag. Down by the clock is an area that is for background ...

Q. When I defragment my C drive, the graph goes only to 10 percent before I get a message that says the drive's content changed. How can I correct this problem? Q. When defragmenting, drive C gets to ...