Modern computers have impressive processing speeds, but over time, even the fastest machines begin to slow down somewhat. If your desktop or laptop's performance is declining, even during light ...

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 ...

Just do it - because file fragmentation can be a performance killer that can slow even newer systems to a crawl. Although many users have heard the term “defragging a drive,” a surprising number don’t ...

Stump the PC Club is a free tech-advice column written by members of the North Orange County Computer Club, which has been in existence since 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org. And don’t forget ...

Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or ...

Q: My computer has been sluggish lately. It seems to start up all right, but it takes forever to open and save documents. Any ideas of what may be the problem and how I can fix it? A: It could be a ...

In a perfect world our computers would be able to maintain clean hard drives through self cleaning and eradicate any problems without our intervention. As we are all aware this is not a perfect world ...