Q. I know I’m suppose to defrag my hard drive every now and then so it runs more efficiently. But every time I start a defrag, the function runs for a few minutes, stops and then starts all over again ...

"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 ...

Q. Often when I go to defrag my computer, I have to analyze the drive first to see if it needs to be defragged. Most of the time it says it doesn’t need to be. Is it OK to defrag anyway? Will it hurt ...

Back in the bad old days of computing, hard-drive defragmentation was a big deal. You needed a quality third-party “defragger,” and you needed to run it regularly—at least once a month—to ensure ...

Laptop hard drives are prone to the same defragmenting risks as desktop computers, except a few factors change in the severity of the risks. If you're using the ...

I wish I could say that I’m guaranteed to recoup many times over the time I spent defragging my PCs by having them run so much faster post-defrag. Maybe I’m kidding myself that there’s any practical ...

Microsoft has fixed a bug in the Windows 10 version 2004 defragger that caused SSD drives to be defragmented too often. In June 2020, after the Windows 10 May 2020 Update was released, we reported ...

I spoke this morning with Steve Collen, the director of product marketing for Cisco. One of the things Steve and I spoke about was about "defragging the industry." Defragging is a term that computers ...

Win2K says "no" to defragging any NTFS volume with >4K cluster sizes. How can I get this drive defragged, short of going out and buying something like Norton ...