Entering the new year on a brand-new PC is, of course, a great feeling. However, for those of us who won’t be upgrading our hardware anytime soon, a tune-up of your machine can massively improve its ...

According to its parent company Avast, more than 130 million people use the performance optimization software CCleaner. And today all of those people need to be sure they’ve installed the latest ...

One final thing to keep in mind is that your very first deep clean can take up to two hours, depending on how much history your system has accumulated. If the progress bar feels slow, that is normal.

After a few years, it's normal for your PC to start slowing down. All those half-downloaded files and old drivers can really bog down performance. However, just because your computer is slowing down ...

Windows only: One of our favorite PC cleansers CCleaner (which stands for "Crap Cleaner") saw an upgrade this week. Since the last time we mentioned CCleaner several new versions have come out; this ...

Hackers modified versions of the Avast-owned CCleaner software to infect potentially millions of PCs with a backdoor. The so-called supply chain attack targeting CCleaner users was discovered by ...

Windows is a gunk magnet: The more you use it, the more it gets bogged down with the digital equivalent of dust bunnies. Fortunately, it's easy enough to clear out all that performance-sapping ...

If you’re a level 20 PC nerd, you’ll go to extreme lengths to improve system performance. And if you have budget to spare, you’ll probably first turn to hardware upgrades—an almost surefire way to get ...