Spread the loveEver feel like your Windows 10 PC is dragging its feet, taking forever to open files or launch applications?

If it were up to me, I’d never defragment my PC’s drives. I’m one of those people who prefers to have Windows’ maintenance operations done in the background, without my direct intervention. So it ...

Defragmenting your computer helps organize the data in your hard drive and can improve its performance tremendously, especially in terms of speed. If your computer is running slower than usual, it ...

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...

For decades, desktop and laptop owners have been told to defragment their hard drives to get the best performance, especially on Windows-based PCs. Defragging reorganizes the drive so the operating ...

Spread the loveYou’ve probably been there: your computer feels sluggish, applications are taking ages to load, and that ...

Microsoft has improved the defrag experience and introduced theme-aware app splash screens with the release of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20241, the latest Windows build available for Windows ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Microsoft's latest preview of Windows 10 brings new theme-aware splash screens for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps and an improved defrag experience with a new Advanced View. The new theme-aware ...

When we last left our intrepid blogger (way back on Friday), he’d pointed the finger at Vista’s Disk Defragmenter and cried, “J’accuse!” To recap, my otherwise blazing PC was suffering from ...