Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is making a very serious strategic error in fragmenting its Windows 8 ecosystem by supporting two fundamentally incompatible versions of its ...

Most contemporary Windows operating systems will defrag your computer automatically. You can defrag your computer manually if you have Windows 7, 8, 10, or Vista. Defragmenting your computer helps ...

Windows 8.1 Open the Start menu by clicking on the Windows icon on the taskbar, and type defrag in the search bar. Select Defragment and Optimize Drives. Select the disk drive you want to optimize.

Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

I recently moved to W8.1 and in the process of searching for defrag information about HDDs, I came across this mention of a SSD defrag bug in W8.1. Yes, it appears it still is. I just did a clean ...

To begin, open an elevated command prompt window. Type Defrag /? or defrag.exe and hit Enter. This will show you all the defragmentation options and command-line switches. /A Perform analysis on the ...

The built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter has been much improved upon, and more so in Windows 11/10, and is considered to be much better than its predecessors. The defrag engine and the manageability of ...

"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...

Q: I have a Windows 10 computer, and the defragmenter command has stopped working on it. I tried running it as an administrator, but it still would not run. I also tried going to the C drive to ...