Defragmenting disks used to be a big thing back in the day. I certainly remember doing it every now and then on my PC back in the mid-2000s, and it felt like it really helped spedd up your PC. But ...

Berlin software developer O&O Software has released O&O Defrag 29 Professional, a major new release of its extremely configurable defrag and disk optimization tool for Windows. The new release is the ...

Disk Defragmenter was a wonderful utility that Microsoft included with Windows back in the day. Back then, you’d use it to theoretically speed up disk access. Today, you can run a fun simulation right ...

O&O Software has released O&O Defrag 30 Pro, the latest version of its premium Windows optimization software. The new iteration introduces Boot-Time Optimization and an improved IntensiveOptimize ...

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 ...

I read generalsparky thread about defragmenters for Ext2 file systems... And thankfully, for what I read, they not need to be defragged. But I have three Windows (vfat) partitions mounted on my Linux ...

OT: My Dad's win98 box has an annoying tendency to start hammering its hard drive at random times like in the middle of an UT net game, thus slowing the whole machine down. If I hit alt-ctrl-del to ...

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: ...