Avast Launches GrimeFighter To Clean Up & Safeguard Your Windows PC
Avast is looking beyond protection now with the launch of Avast Grimefighter, a new tool to clean up and safeguard your Windows PC.
How to Disable Forced Restarts After a Windows Update
Are you tired of Windows hassling you to reboot your computer after updates were installed? Miss a pop-up and it reboots automatically. Stop this madness and reboot at your leisure.
4 Windows System Parts You Should Be Extra Careful With
I believe it was 1998 when my family invested in our first PC. Late by many's standards, but I was only a nine-year-old kid at the time. Since then, if I had to take a stab in the dark. I'd say I've been through about eight different PCs. One of the biggest learning experiences is finding out what parts of your computer are sensitive to tweaking. It's good to be cautious, but not too cautious. If you consider yourself a novice to the Windows platform, here are four areas that I recommend you stay far away from.
Rearrange The Windows 8 Start Screen With Registry Tweaks & Utilities
As befits a new operating system, over the past few weeks we’ve featured many articles about how to use and tweak Windows 8. With the focus largely on tweaking. After all, when so many developers have gone to the lengths of making tools to make the new operating system more customizable, it would be a shame to overlook this, especially when so many potential Windows 8 users seem to want to make changes.
Don't Believe The Hype: Registry Cleaners Don't Make Windows Faster
Much advice has been given on how to keep your computer running smoothly, as well as how to fix it when it has become slow. We have even published a Windows on Speed guide, written by yours truly. One thing that hardly ever makes Windows faster, however, is cleaning the registry. The often repeated tale, that registry cleaners can improve a computer's performance, is a myth, and can actually cause serious issues.
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.
How To Change & Fix Broken File Type Associations In Windows 7
This article will discuss what file type associations are, how you can change them in general, and why so many people have issues with .lnk file associations in Windows. If you have been running into this issue again and again, it's time to examine its cause and find out how to deal with it or better yet, avoid it altogether.
Optimize, Sterilize, & Harmonize Your System With ioBit Advanced System Care [Windows]
Having given ioBit Advanced System Care a test run, I can confidently say it’s a great free solution for – indeed – many of your windows problems. The app makes a thorough effort at both cleaning and optimizing your system.
Help CCleaner Remove All Your Excess Files With CCEnhancer
Add 450 extra programs to the already extensive CCleaner. An unofficial program makes Piriform's famous system maintenance tool even more useful, by vastly increasing the amount of software it supports. CCEnhancer makes CCleaner even better at its job. A collection of userscripts from around the Internet, it can add support for 450 programs CCleaner doesn't support out of the box.