"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...

Q A friend of mine suggested that I "defragment" my computer every once in a while. He says it will boost performance, but he also said it will move my data around. I tend to be very organized as to ...

QUESTION: It's impossible to defragment my C: drive on my Windows 98 computer. It does about 26 per cent of the drive, then starts over again from the beginning. Aidan Barriscale ANSWER: The ...