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: ...

Think about what a particular "fix" is asking you to do before you do it.

Has anyone been able to successfully set up a GPO for a scheduled task for Disk Defragmenter or some other method to having defrag run on all workstations in a domain? Did you have to point a GPO to a ...

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 ...

I move an awful lot of large files among disks (both among partitions and physical disks, if it matters) and I'm concerned of having lots of defragmented files.<BR><BR>It's kind of a pain in the ass ...