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 ...

Disktrix's $30 utility lets you defragment hard drives and other storage devices a little or a lot--and view the contents of individual drive clusters, among other options. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

Windows provides tools that allow you to scan your computer to determine whether it requires optimization, rearrange fragmented files to help it run more efficiently and clean the computer by deleting ...

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: ...

The Disk Defragmenter in Windows is automatically scheduled to run at 1.00 am, by default, which means that you don’t really need to run it manually. But if you find that you are unable to manually ...

In today’s fast paced world of corporate America, who doesn’t want the highest disk performance they can have? With the constant advancements in CPU technology, servers and workstations continue to ...

No matter how sophisticated your RAID hardware is or how fast your disk devices are, servers that actively write and delete files slow to a crawl without routine disk defragmentation. Windows 2000 ...

Q: My computer has been sluggish lately. It seems to start up all right, but it takes forever to open and save documents. Any ideas of what may be the problem and how I can fix it? A: It could be a ...

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 ...

Hi, I have a Windows 2000 server that has a horribly fragmented drive. We think it is because of an EMR app that is running on it. The apps providers say it should run on a drive all to its lonesome, ...