Although many users have heard the term “defragging a drive,” a surprising number don’t know why it’s necessary or how to do it. Fortunately, this built-in Microsoft Windows tool is small, effective ...

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 ...

This would probably only affect performance when the drive begins to fill up. Nortons reported that my free space was in about 5,000 pieces before the defrag. Drive free space totaled about 50 gig, so ...