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 ...

Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or ...

Small businesses, arguably more than any other type of business, depend on efficiency and organization. The rate or progress of work done in an organization can grind to a halt when employees can't ...

I've got a trial copy of version 6.5 of O&O defrag and I was wondering how to defrag locked files (like the MFT, pagefile, and hibernation file). In the help file, it says something about setting up a ...

A fragmented hard drive is a slow hard drive. If you want your system to run at peak performance, you should run a "defragger" from time to time. Defraggler is a free defragmentation utility that ...

Do you have a lot of ideas but no clue how to organize them? Or maybe ideas come to you and by the time you have a chance to record them, you've forgotten? Enter the Spark File. As Alex Hillman ...

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 ...

"Defraggler" is a free defragmenter that runs at a fairly high speed, allowing defragmentation not only on a drive basis but also on a file or folder basis. It is very compact and can be carried ...

I have trouble finding some program that will order files in a specific sequence on the HD. I can't find a defragger that will just take a list of files and put them in order at the front of the ...

Database servers suffer from two distinct types of fragmentation: internal and external. Internal fragmentation occurs when records are removed from database pages causing the space the record ...

Throughout the years, a rumor has occasionally surfaced that a particular operating system or a certain file system–NTFS, for example–does not require defragmentation. Various reasons are given, but ...