Defragment your hard drive. Also known as defragging, defragmenting your hard drive is a process that can clear up memory and help optimize your computer's performance.

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 ...

Whenever I defrag an HDD with less than about 15% free space, windows says it needs more space to work properly. Considering i have a 60 and 40 GB HDD, just a few percent seems like it would be ...

Hi. I've recently had a problem with degragmenting a file equaling over 3GB in size. Common.mpq (World of Warcraft data file). I have O&O professional defrag utility and it doesnt touch it, and ...

Q: I just got a new ultralight notebook for when I travel. It has one of those super-fast solid-state drives. My maintenance program for my regular hard-drive computers in the office includes ...

One of the truisms of NetWare is that the traditional storage system has no need of defragmentation. In a desktop operating system (such as DOS or Windows), file storage blocks become scattered ...

If you too feel a weird tingle of nostalgia for the act of defragging a hard drive, though not the necessity of actually doing it, have I got good news for you.

It's natural for a PC to slow down over time, but it doesn't have to stay that way. From running Disk Cleanup and tweaking the power plan to getting rid of unnecessary apps and files, here are a few ...