QUESTION: When I defragment the hard disk on my Windows 98se IBM ThinkPad, I cannot achieve anything better than 15 per cent fragmentation. I used to achieve 7- to 8-per-cent. Is 15 per cent adequate?

The built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter has been much improved upon, and more so in Windows 11/10, and is considered to be much better than its predecessors. The defrag engine and the manageability of ...

I am sure many of you have been told in the past to defrag your hard drives when you have noticed a slow down on your computer. You may have followed the advice and defragged your hard drive, and ...

DiskTuna is a freeware application that lets you defrag and optimize your computer’s hard drive and increase performance and boost overall speed of your Windows computer. While the built-in Disk ...

While network administrators and managers have many issues to deal with throughout their day, what they may not realize is that a lot of them could be solved by dealing with one single issue: ...

When it come to disk fragmentation, a small amount of proactive maintenance can have a big impact on help desk call volumes. Help desk systems aren’t the only way to reduce the support workload. Staff ...

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It’s an old myth that still crops up from time to time: if you have a disk with plenty of free space, you don’t need to defragment that disk. This is one of those bits of information that would ...

Occasionally, I run across information that everyone speaks as the truth, yet I can't get a reason why it is true anywhere. This drives me nuts!! I am going nuts now.<BR><BR>I am involved in several ...

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 ...