A Spring Cleaning Checklist For Your PC Part 2: Delete Junk & Free Wasted Space [Windows]
Regular PC maintenance is often neglected, leading to lost hard drive space and a bloated operating system that runs increasingly slower. To avoid a dreaded Windows re-installation, you should perform a thorough cleanup at least once a year. In part 1 of this article, I took you through a physical cleaning checklist for your computer. For part 2 I have created a spring cleaning checklist for the digital environment.
Full Version of CCleaner Now Released For The Mac
No matter how intuitive and reportedly "trouble free" Macs are to run, believe me, several months after you add hundreds of files, applications, and download thousands of webpages, your shiny new iMac or MacBook Air is going to run slower than when you first booted it out the box. That's because like any computer, digital junk files pile up in the hard drive; and eventually it just needs to get cleaned out.
Keep Your Windows Fresh Like New With DrivePurge
Windows systems get cluttered and become slow over time. This is a known problem that many companies and products have been trying to fix for years. There are a bunch of established players in the field, such as Soluto and CCleaner, but today I’m here to tell you about a small, free utility that you’ve probably never heard of before, called DrivePurge.
Optimize Your System To Run At Its Best With CCleaner
Over the last two years, CCleaner has changed quite a bit in terms of version numbers...up now to version 3.10 at the time of this writing. While visually the program actually hasn't changed much (it's good, why break something that's not broken?), a lot of additional features have been included behind-the-scenes to make it more functional than ever.
Get Your Windows PC Back Into Shape With WinUtilities
If there is anything that a Windows user can't deny it's that the Windows operating system is an irritating thing to maintain. There are so many hidden stockpiles of temporary, log and history files. Honestly, who has time to "clean up" the mess that other OS processes and installed applications leave behind?