Modern computers have impressive processing speeds, but over time, even the fastest machines begin to slow down somewhat. If your desktop or laptop's performance is declining, even during light ...

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"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...

I have a WD 120 gig 7200rpm hd thats my main drive. I guess my scheduled defragging using norton systemworks has been slackin or something because somehow my disk is 97% fragmented. which explains why ...

Howdy everyone. Let’s see what interesting little pieces of information we can learn today. Q Hi eRin. I read your articles all the time and do my best to follow your advice on maintaining and ...

QUESTION: My problem is computer "freeze up". Whenever I try to defrag my computer or run a thorough scandisk, these programs will run for a while and then suddenly the computer will freeze up. The ...