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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A multiple-partition setup helps organize your data, because you can dedicate blocks of storage to a specific task. As an example, you might have programs on your C: partition and business documents ...

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