You can pay for third-party PC optimization software to make your computer run more smoothly, but Microsoft PC Manager does ...

It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down with age. Disks fill up with the detritus of use, from old file fragments to the echoes of programs that once lived but are now remembered ...

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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Are you starting the new year with a new PC? What are you going to do with the computer it's replacing? You might be planning to hand down the old ...

Growing up, I heard a lot about PC cleaning apps, and used many of them myself. Everyone always wishes they could get a little more performance out of their PC, so seeing all these apps claiming to ...