defragging

I'm kind of freaking out. I was in the middle of defragging Dell inspiron 15 laptop running windows 8.1 64-bit and I had to leave and I accidently closed the lid, which shuts down my laptop. Upon returning to my laptop, I realized my mistake when I tried booting the laptop up, it turns on, but...

Good evening! Sorry if I posted this under an incorrect topic area, but I'm at a loss and not sure where to start. So, I shall give you all a brief explanation as to what is up and, hopefully, you can direct me in the right direction? My husband's cousin had been complaining about her laptop...

Hi A friend of mine called and said his sound wasn't working. I went over to his house yesterday and checked out his computer. When I booted it up it was apparent that the sound was working fine. After cleaning out hundreds of minor and some major malware, running CCleaner, defragging. I...

I'm trying to shrink my primary Windows partition because I want to create a partition to install Linux Mint on. Well, when I go into the Windows Disk Manager and try to shrink the partition, it doesn't let me shrink it more than 32MB. I need quite a bit more space than that. After a little...

Hi, I am having an annoying problem that I would appreciate some help in resolving. I have deleted and reinstalled a game program, now, three times. Prior to the last installation I went thru and defragged and used disk cleanup. I got the same results: Instead of installing new files from the...

Is defragging necessary in Windows 7 or does Windows defrag continually?

I just don't understand as an advanced user, why my system is running so slow with Windows 7. I've updated all my drivers, cleared out the caches, cleaned the registry, tweeked the registry, closed down all background programs running, ran virus scan with AVG and Avast anti virus programs...