Unprecedented hardware advancements have put powerful multi-core CPUs, multiple GPUs, fast memory and large hard drives within the reach of the power user. Yet the overall performance of a desktops ...

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 ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss., Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SlimWare Utilities today announced SlimCleaner 4.0, the newest version of its popular PC cleaning and optimization software. Available for free at ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

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 ...

For many of us, it has become routine to replace a slow workstation or server. We recall how fast it used to be, but are unable to determine the cause of this increased system performance slowdown. Of ...

Much as everyone loves Microsoft’s Windows 7, not everyone has made the move yet. Plenty of folks are clinging to Windows XP for dear life, while others just didn’t see enough reason to upgrade from ...

BURBANK, CA--(Marketwire - August 12, 2009) - It's one thing to desire top performance and reliability from your computers, and everyone does. But when those computers are being used to manage ...

I have trouble finding some program that will order files in a specific sequence on the HD. I can't find a defragger that will just take a list of files and put them in order at the front of the ...

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...

In Windows 11, you can create multiple partitions on a hard drive. If a hard drive partition has more free space and you want to create a separate partition from that, you can do so by shrinking the ...