For the last couple months I’ve been troubleshooting a vexing problem on my new quad-core HP desktop: Roughly once per week, the machine would start running as slow as molasses. And I mean slow: ...

Q: I just got a new ultralight notebook for when I travel. It has one of those super-fast solid-state drives. My maintenance program for my regular hard-drive computers in the office includes ...

2) Defragment your hard drive: As you use your computer - install, uninstall, add and delete - the hard drive can get the digital equivalent of a messy garage. Cleaning up your hard drive is easy to ...

It is quite possible to make a scenario where fragmentation is inevitable.<BR>For example, take a 40GB drive. Consider it 0% fragmented with 10GB of free space near the end.<BR>Now delete 10GB from ...