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 ...

Delete all the junk files you can find. You might also need to defrag the drive or erase malware Reviewed by Jon Fisher Is your computer running slower than when you first got it? It can happen due to ...

Defragmentation actively harms SSDs. Flash memory cells can only handle a limited number of write cycles before they wear out ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

I've been having a little bit of trouble with Warcraft III ever since I first installed it. While playing, it would occasionally dump me out to the desktop with a "critical error" message with ...