Most modern Windows operating systems will defrag your computer automatically, but you can do it manually if you have Windows 7, 8, 10, or Vista.

How to Defragment an HP Laptop. 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 ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and ...

While you can always manually defrag a disk, you can also schedule its run. In this article, we are going to see how to schedule Disk Defragmentation on Windows 11 and more.

Is your PC slowing you down? Use this guide to defragment files using the Optimize Drives tool on Windows 10.

Defragmenting disks used to be a big thing back in the day. I certainly remember doing it every now and then on my PC back in the mid-2000s, and it felt like it really helped spedd up your PC. But ...

In fact, Windows does sometimes defragment SSDs—on purpose. Scott Hanselman explains on his blog how Windows treats SSDs after digging into the topic with developers on the Windows storage team.

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