Windows 11/10 automatically defragments the disk. 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 ...

Windows 8.1 Open the Start menu by clicking on the Windows icon on the taskbar, and type defrag in the search bar. Select Defragment and Optimize Drives. Select the disk drive you want to optimize.

Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches.

What is file fragmentation, how does it happen and why does fragmentation occur in Windows 11/10? The article talks about how Windows tries to prevent fragmentation.

In Windows 10 and later, however, automated optimization is turned on by default (via Help Desk Geek). Theoretically, this should eliminate the need to manually defrag a hard drive, but the ...

UltraDefrag is a free, easy-to use-utility that defragments files and optimizes their placement on your hard drive. It sports both a simple but effective Windows graphic interface and a command ...

Note that in Windows 8, you'll see your SSDs in the Disk Defragmenter, but it doesn't actually defrag them; it's just performing other SSD-related maintenance.

To overcome this problem, you use a disk defragmenter utility. This moves parts of files and free space around until the files are using as contiguous a space as possible. Windows 2000 (like all ...