Dealing with video files or DVD images on a PC typically involves massive hard drive operations, as the file sizes tend to be rather large. A full size DVD image is roughly 4.4 gigabytes, but high definition files (Blu-ray, HD DVD) can be ten times larger! Copying, moving or extracting files for archives takes time, [...]

One of the limitations of the Windows NT/2000 defragmentation interface is that it is not possible to defragment files that are open for exclusive access. Thus, standard defragmentation programs can neither show you how fragmented your paging files or Registry hives are, nor defragment them. Paging and Registry file fragmentation can be one of the [...]