Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q A friend of mine suggested that I "defragment" my computer every once in a while. He says it will boost performance, but he also said it will move my data around. I tend to be very organized as to ...

It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down with age. Disks fill up with the detritus of use, from old file fragments to the echoes of programs that once lived but are now remembered ...