Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...

As disk size and data volume increase, the time it takes to perform backup will increase proportionally. Defragmentation can improve backup speed by up to 50 percent.

When it come to disk fragmentation, a small amount of proactive maintenance can have a big impact on help desk call volumes.

Just like sludge, information can’t flow properly, and disk performance suffers. And, just like sludge, the wear and tear on your hardware leads to actual damage to the disk, meaning a failed drive ...

Disk Defragmenter Issue or Vista Glitch? This got so irksome that I started venting about it on Facebook. And that’s when an old high-school buddy (you rock, Scooter!) came to the rescue. He ...

In reality, these icons launch the tools included with Windows such as a disk defragmenter, start-up manager, disk cleaner, Internet file and cookie cleanup, and browser cache cleanup.

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 ...

Disk defragmentation, or defragging, involves consolidation of data and removal of data fragments found within the hard drive and RAM via a system scan.

Has anyone been able to successfully set up a GPO for a scheduled task for Disk Defragmenter or some other method to having defrag run on all workstations in a domain? Did you have to point a GPO ...

In the Windows world, disk fragmentation is a fact of life. If you use a system, it will fragment, and performance will begin to suffer–no matter how fast the computer is. The key to computer speed, ...