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 ...

Before doing anything, you need to turn off your device. Unplug it as well. This is the most important step. If you don't follow it you could do some serious damage to the hardware. Take a soft cloth ...

When you delete a file or folder on your computer, it doesn’t completely disappear right away. Instead, it lingers in your system’s Recycle Bin, where it will remain until you permanently delete it ...

Some computer software programs include small application files that load whenever you boot your business computer, and they continue to run in the background using up your computer's memory and hard ...

The only words more terrifying to an average PC user than “Blue Screen of Death” are “spring cleaning.” Admit it: Sitting back and dumping file after file into your computer without bothering to ...

Spring has arrived, which means it is time to clean up and get organized - not that anyone should have waited for spring to do that. Before you go into the more manual task of cleaning your home, you ...

As Marie Kondo fever sweeps the nation, many of us are in an intense tidying up mode. We’re bidding adieu to clothes, books and miscellany that doesn’t “spark joy,” as organizational guru Kondo would ...

With a newly installed Windows PC, only a few system services and programs start. The resource requirements are correspondingly low and the operating system responds ...

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 ...