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 ...

Small businesses, arguably more than any other type of business, depend on efficiency and organization. The rate or progress of work done in an organization can grind to a halt when employees can't ...

Your computer's a busy beaver, rapidly accessing and utilizing files all in the name of bringing you what you want, when you want it. Sometimes it needs a little help tidying up, and that's where ...

Windows has its own defragmenting tool, and you might have used it already. When it comes to Windows file-storing algorithms, the operating system makes a case for excess fragmentation through its ...

Throughout the years, a rumor has occasionally surfaced that a particular operating system or a certain file system–NTFS, for example–does not require defragmentation. Various reasons are given, but ...

A fragmented hard drive is a slow hard drive. If you want your system to run at peak performance, you should run a "defragger" from time to time. Defraggler is a free defragmentation utility that ...

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 ...

Database servers suffer from two distinct types of fragmentation: internal and external. Internal fragmentation occurs when records are removed from database pages causing the space the record ...

I've got a trial copy of version 6.5 of O&O defrag and I was wondering how to defrag locked files (like the MFT, pagefile, and hibernation file). In the help file, it says something about setting up a ...

Database servers suffer from two distinct types of fragmentation: internal and external. Internal fragmentation occurs when records are removed from database pages causing the space the record ...