Defragmenting your HP laptop is an useful computer maintenance task that restores scattered and disorganized files to improve performance. An HP laptop's hard disk becomes fragmented when you delete, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Select Optimize. Once the defragmentation process is done, you will see OK in the Current status column. Windows 8.1 Open the Start menu by clicking on the Windows icon on the taskbar, and type defrag ...

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 ...

It’s been a while since I defragged — years, probably, because these days for a number of reasons computers don’t really need to. But perhaps it is we who need to defrag. And what better way to defrag ...

You do the dishes. You do the laundry. If you have a lawn, you mow it – on occasion. You sometimes think about making your bed. Today, I’m here to tell you that your computer needs the same attention.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More than 42% of PC users neglect to defragment their computers, according to a client-sponsored survey conducted by online opinion polling and market research service ...