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.

A. Defragmentation is the equivalent of spring cleaning for Windows. The process essentially reorganizes data on your hard drive in a way that compiles and consolidates it into given areas, which in ...

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. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

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 ...

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 ...