defragmentation

I have an old Toshiba Satellite L355-S7905 that was handed down to me back in 2009. It gave me some problems beforehand (needed a new OS twice since I got it) but over the past year it's been fine. Suddenly, out of the blue, the OS crashed on me a few days ago. The crash was pretty bad and the...

I know you guys must see a thousand of these every day, but bear with me. I have an HP EliteBook 8530p running the latest Windows 7 Professional. Here are my hardware specs: My Hardware 4 gigs of RAM (replaced a year ago) Intel Core2 Duo (2.9 ghz) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 Hard drive was...

Hi all, I hope I am in the correct area for the issue I am having. :frown: My laptop is stating that I have used up 647GB out of 680GB but myself & one other have gone through the entire laptop, & the entirety of my laptop does not equal up to the amount in which it says. There is no visible...

Hello, lately i recognize slow activity in my windows 7 ultimate sp1 without any spaciel resone.. the slow activity noticeable especially when i try to launch something..like: *open a folder or menu *open browser (of any kind) *launch favorits in browser *enter Windows settings *navigate in sub...

How much harm am I doing to my Laptop by Cleaning via c-cleaner,Auslogics Disk Defrag, and Glary Utilities duplicate & empty files finder then defragging again after restart of each about 2-3 times per day? I have been utilizing bit torrents recently and then deleting said after watching and...

Hi, I've encountered this crash around 6 times in the last few days, always when running games: Star Trek Online [through Steam], Neverwinter Nights 2 [through Steam] and Sid Meiers Pirates. I have filled in as many of the system details as I can to the profile - if more are needed, please tell...

Hi my windows won't start and I'm in panic, please someone help me! Okay this is what happened: Minutes ago, I defragged (not quick defrag) my Local Disk (C) with Piriform Defraggler. The first time I defragged, it defragged a lot and I gained a dramatic free space, but during deframenting, the...

Using Defraggler, I cannot get my 1TB boot drive below 30% fragmentation. Is this a problem? Regards, Jim.

Hi, I have some problem with my external hard drive and I would appreciate any advise you can give me to solve this. I have Toshiba 500GB hard drive that I bought just over 2 years ago. I am using it to backup my data from pc, and sometimes to play a movie from it. Recently I can't access...

Hi I posed a few days ago someplace that I found that defragmenting my C:\ drive gave me a real increase in read speed. From about 3 Mbs to 30. I defraged my B:\ drive (a partition of C:\) and today I tacked D:\ it was a long haul, mostly because it has the compressed back up of C:\ on it...

Hi I know that fragmentation makes a lot of difference. I've had times when the difference between having fragmented files vs un-fragmented files would determine whether some processes would complete or not when generating 3D video. If the files were fragmented it would just hang up after a...

Hello All I use Windows 7 Pro on my Sony VAIO Laptop and I have noticed in the last few weeks that it has became slower and slower so I did the defrag, virus check, disk clean up, windows tweaks and tips un-checked most of the start-up programs and it did make the computer faster except for the...

I need some help with my PC. Over the past 3 to 6 months it has gotten weird. I have a HP I purchased at a store just over a year ago. I am running Windows 7 64bit. Specs: OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 System Manufacturer...

Hi, this is my first post, because I really cannot work out what is going on! I have a recently bought 500GB external hard drive (NTFS) which I want to partition to have a 100GB partition formatted to either FAT32 or Mac Extended Journaled. I have 228gb free on the drive, but when I go to Shrink...

All versions of Microsoft Windows include a tool for disk defragmentation. The Windows Disk Defragmenter tool is a limited version of the Diskeeper program from Diskeeper Corporation. Disk Defragmenter does not include all the features available in the... Link Removed

Using the options available from the command line version of the Windows 7 defragmentation utility you have much more control over the maintenance of your storage devices. Link Removed

What can I do to lower the Physical Memory Usage in my Laptop? For information, I am using Windows Seven Ultimate (build 7600) with RAM 1 GB, Intel Core i3 M350 @ 2.27 GHz. When I hit task manager, the Physical Memory: Total : 941 Cached : 85 Available : 81...

Ok, i had this problem before & didnt get much help but i didnt really give much info about it & i decided to do a repair install which messed everything up n did a fresh install, anyways its been like 2-3 weeks since then & now the problems back & i have more info to give you...

Hi i have lately been having a few blue screens such as Memory_management System_Service_Exception System_Thread_Exception_Not_Handled_M Kmode_exception_not_handled also at the begginning of the year i was getting Driver_irql_not less or equal and bad_pool_header. My systems Specs are...

Here's some advice on upgrading to Windows 7, defragmenting your hard drive, and handling Data Execution Protection warnings. More...