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 ...

Computer geeks tell us that, for optimal performance, we should clean up the files on our computers on a regular basis. Dump the old emails. Disable or uninstall the programs and apps you never use.

Over a period of extended computer use, you will install numerous programs and save many files. These will be scattered throughout your computer's hard drive and they will increasingly take up more ...

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 ...

Digital junk piles up too quickly. Look no further than your phone and all those blurry photos and old screenshots in your gallery. What you don't see are the invasive tracking cookies saved in your ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Many families have welcomed new PCs into their homes, thanks to back-to-school and Labor Day sales, leaving older ...

It can be annoying to constantly run out of space on your Windows computer without knowing the culprit. However, sometimes the offenders can be files and folders that have grown too large for your ...

I've heard you (and others) recommend CCleaner as a maintenance tool for Windows, but I'm not really sure what to do with it. Should I just clean everything? Will that really make my computer faster?

From deadlines to the daily grind, there’s never a good time to drop everything and clean your workspace. But if you keep the term “spring cleaning” in mind, at least there’s one good reminder to ...

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(WHTM) — Since the year 2000, the second Monday in February has been National Clean Out Your Computer Day. It’s the day to spend a little time (or a lot of time) cleaning out the physical and digital ...

(NBC News) Today is the day set aside for your cleaning up your digital devices. National “Clean Out Your Computer Day” promotes cleaning out files that should have been dealt with years ago. “For ...