Defragmentation is one of the chores of computer ownership, something that's tedious but which has to be done regularly. Windows includes a free defragmentation tool, but there are plenty of competing ...

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 ...

Defragging a hard drive was once so common it was almost a rite of passage for computer users. Many different disk utility and maintenance programs offered defragmentation routines as part of their ...

Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen host this deep dive into the tools used on the tech support show Defrag. Each Defrag Tools show focuses on a specific tool, going deep into a tool's ...

Most people think of disk defragmentation as a process that involves gathering and reordering pieces of data files that have been scattered on a hard drive. The fragments are moved around, like the ...

Larry Larsen and Andrew Richards do a live version of Defrag Tools with Larry Osterman and answer questions about troubleshooting Windows, talk about WinRT, x86/x64 vs. ARM vs. MIPS vs. ALPHA, and ...

I've run disk defragmenters and utilities like PCTOOLS since the days of DOS 5.0. Back in the day, the FAT file system had an annoying tendency to fragment files into a million pieces if you so much ...

Virtualization’s recent explosion coincides with the trend of consolidating systems on fewer, but more powerful, hardware. Consolidation makes cost-effective sense by reducing management overhead and ...