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Windows provides tools that allow you to scan your computer to determine whether it requires optimization, rearrange fragmented files to help it run more efficiently and clean the computer by deleting ...

I've been running an SSD on my HP ML310e server with a Marvell 88SE9230 Powered SIIG controller card for the past while now. Everything's running in AHCI mode (no-raid) and I recently bought a new 1 ...

Q: My four-year-old Windows 10 laptop has a weird problem when saving Microsoft Word files. In the last couple of months, the time it takes Word to save a file has gone from nearly instantaneous to ...

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...

If you’re encountering the storage issue displaying the message ERROR DISK TOO FRAGMENTED with code 0x0000012E on your Windows 11/10 computer, then this post is ...

The latest Windows 10 update appears to be running the automatic hard drive optimization process more often than it needs to. While this is a necessary part of a hard drive’s upkeep, and letting ...

Q: I have a Windows 10 computer, and the defragmenter command has stopped working on it. I tried running it as an administrator, but it still would not run. I also tried going to the C drive to ...

Microsoft's latest preview of Windows 10 brings new theme-aware splash screens for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps and an improved defrag experience with a new Advanced View. The new theme-aware ...

Microsoft has improved the defrag experience and introduced theme-aware app splash screens with the release of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20241, the latest Windows build available for Windows ...

During the coronavirus crisis, computers are our main link to each other and to the world. And sitting at that important communication tool right now in your home very well may be a 6-year-old, doing ...

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