It's faster to restore a known-good disc image of your PC than to reinstall Windows, so plan ahead by using a free disk-backup utility. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

Old file fragments and registry detritus can slow down your Windows PC. We tested three well-known disk cleaners to see if they could help. It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down ...

The Disk Defragmenter in Windows is automatically scheduled to run at 1.00 am, by default, which means that you don’t really need to run it manually. But if you find that you are unable to manually ...

No matter how sophisticated your RAID hardware is or how fast your disk devices are, servers that actively write and delete files slow to a crawl without routine disk defragmentation. Windows 2000 ...

It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down with age. Disks fill up with the detritus of use, from old file fragments to the echoes of programs that once lived but are now remembered ...