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 their ...

If you want to defragment your disk, you’ll need to resort to Windows’ defragmenting tools. Overall, while Partition Master Professional 3.5 does offer the same tools as the other partition managers I ...

Most people think of disk defragmentation as a process that involves gathering and reordering pieces of data files that have been scattered on a hard drive. The fragments are moved around, like the ...

Plenty of people have defragmentation enabled as part of routine PC maintenance, and years ago, that was solid advice. When hard disk drives (HDDs) were standard, defragmentation could speed up your ...

Defragmentation is one of the chores of computer ownership, something that's tedious but which has to be done regularly. Windows includes a free defragmentation tool, but there are plenty of competing ...

Virtualization’s recent explosion coincides with the trend of consolidating systems on fewer, but more powerful, hardware. Consolidation makes cost-effective sense by reducing management overhead and ...