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?

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: ...

There are times when disk defragmention may come to your system's help. Read Less When you save a file onto your PC, you can see it at one point on the screen and can double click on it to open it or ...

Does anyone know how to setup the disk defragmenter so that I can have it run when I boot up my PC? My hard drive is fragmented really badly, but it seems that if I run it after I log on, a lot of ...

A few days ago, the Tech Trick of the day was about disk defragmentation and how this in-built tool can help your computer run faster. But if you feel you’ll forget to click on that defrag tool every ...

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: ...

Has anyone been able to successfully set up a GPO for a scheduled task for Disk Defragmenter or some other method to having defrag run on all workstations in a domain? Did you have to point a GPO to a ...

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 ...

QUESTION: Whenever I try to defragment my hard disk, my Windows 98 computer locks up. I have to turn it off at the tower and reboot. I recently added the MSN spy sweeper and the AVG free virus ...