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If you haven't been organizing and discarding files as you go, it's likely your hard drive is stuffed with downloads, unwanted photos, file copies and other digital dust bunnies. This can reveal ...

Cleaning up your PC for 10 minutes can save you from running out of storage space and having to delete files when you need ...

When you first bought your brand-new business laptop, it probably worked at lightning-fast speeds. Over time, though, it may have begun to slow down considerably. You may wait forever for something to ...

Clearing out your computer's temporary files helps increase performance and frees up space for more data; however, whenever you delete files on your PC, there's always a risk of inadvertently causing ...

To run it, search for Disk Cleanup in the Start menu, select the drive with update files (this is usually the C drive), and click the "OK" button. Tick the necessary options, such as "Windows Update ...

Normally we frown upon “PC cleaner” apps like CCleaner because they tend to do little more than help you find the same cleanup options already built into your computer (sometimes for a fee). However, ...

One of the most known names in cleaning up a computer’s hard drive right now is CCleaner. However, not only are they far from the only option, there are excellent alternatives to CCleaner that perform ...

Q: My four-year-old Windows 10 laptop has a weird problem when saving Microsoft Word files. In the last couple of months, the time it takes Word to save a file has gone from nearly instantaneous to ...