Several years ago, we published our first SSD Optimization Guide for Windows 7, which was very popular among our readers. At the time, SSDs, or Solid State Drives, were still a relatively new product ...

Speed up your sluggish SSD with this hidden Windows fix.

Recently, I decided to replace the PC on which I write most of my articles. The aging system was starting to lock up a lot and just wasn't reliable any more. My new computer runs Windows 8.1 and ...

Remember how we told you that a bug in Windows 10's built-in drive optimization tool could be crippling your solid state drive (SSD)? Well, good news folks—the latest cumulative update (this month's ...

When Microsoft rolled out the free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1/8 consumers, many were still using mechanical HDD. This trend continues. While Windows 10 or Windows 11 for that matter works ...

With the price of SSDs going down rapidly, more and more computer users have migrated to these faster and smaller devices, leaving the old magnetic hard drives to deal with larger data storage and for ...

Intel SSD Optimizer and firmware upgrade work with Windows 7's 'Trim' tools to increase performance on Intel's X25-M SSDs by 40 percent Intel announced the availability of a tool kit to optimize the ...

This excellent defragger has lots of options and smarts…and it actually improves SSD performance (at the expense of a large number of writes). With smarter file systems and faster disks and PCs, file ...