The conversation is always the same. "This laptop (or desktop, or server) was so fast when I first got it," someone will say to me, "but it just seems to get slower and slower." "Have you run disk ...

One of the truisms of NetWare is that the traditional storage system has no need of defragmentation. In a desktop operating system (such as DOS or Windows), file storage blocks become scattered around ...

A new memory defragmentation technique helps clean up pages containing only a few small objects. Memory defragmentation is a subject which has appeared often in kernel discussions – even if no ...

BURBANK, CA--(Marketwire - August 13, 2009) - Diskeeper Corporation, innovators in performance and reliability technologies®, today announced a newly released Ziff Davis Enterprise white paper ...

File fragmentation is one of the constants of Microsoft’s, and other, operating systems. On a brand-new drive, the first files written are all written to contiguous parts of the drive, making for the ...

Windows users may remember occasionally running a system defragmentation back in the day. A system defrag would reorganize information on the drive to improve storage and access. Now, Windows ...

This reminds of the days when defrag was the solution to all performance problems for those guys reading the bad computer magazines... Why do you need anything better than Windows' own defrag? Is it ...