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 ...

Optimize your computer's performance and say goodbye to the frustration of a slow system. (Photo: Getty) Did it feel like this article took forever to load? Then you're probably the owner of a slow ...

UltraDefrag is a free, easy-to use-utility that defragments files and optimizes their placement on your hard drive. It sports both a simple but effective Windows graphic interface and a command line ...

Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...

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 ...

This is because of how they store data. Unlike HDDs, SSDs don’t have any moving parts. Instead, data is saved to a pool of NAND flash. That is the primary reason why SSDs have an excellent read and ...

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 ...

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