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Security software is supposed to defend your PC — but when it’s outdated, duplicated, or packed with extras, it can quietly turn into the single biggest cause of a “slow but not ancient” Windows machine. Background Modern antivirus products have evolved far beyond a single malware scanner. What...

TWIMC, So I recently bought a Lenovo Ideapad running Windows 10. I installed AVG Internet Security w/ no issues. Then I tried to install AVG VPN and it kept taking forever as it was setting up, and I kept closing the setup and trying again. Finally, I just downloaded Protns VPN which was very...

What program or application is responsible for deleting history files on Firefox? I prefer to do that manually. Is it windows cleanup tool or Ccleaner. I unchecked internet history on Ccleaner but I find that history is deleted.

I am confused. In my Windows 10 installation I sometimes browse the web with Firefox, other times with Chrome. I never use (or have used or will use) Internet Explorer. I have never opened it for any reason. Yet when I go to clean up my installation, there are "temporary IE files." I don't...

VPN is supposed to stop trackers, but my cleanup software tells me I have trackers to delete. Why?

My downloads file is growing. Any rules on deleting everything in the file? Does deleting a download also delete the program once it is installed?

When I go into the "privacy and security" settings for chrome, an option for cleaning comes up - "cached images and files" - does anyone know what that includes? Is this an option that could result in deletion of too much stuff? I am always hesitant to do this part of the clean up for that...

Working with a few documents in Win 10 using MS Word Closed the files, quit MS Word and then started doing cleanup I was informed MS Word was still open or the file was still in use by Word In Win 7 I had a batch file that rested on desktop which with one click would kill the task Can this be...

I recently installed Avast cleanup premium. Since then my PC has been very slow to boot. (Can't find a way to ask Avast!!)

I have a Packard Bell Istart D2314 running Windows 7. Everything runs fine but oh so slow. I have looked into the Task Manager and I find the machine is now running 72 processes and 163 Services, even on startup with no applications running. I must confess I have no idea what most of these...

Please advise me on what files to delete in the list that appears when you run Windows 10 cleanup. Thank you.

Can I delete Windows10Upgrade folder? I am looking for stuff to delete, so I can have more space. This folder is 3.26GB. I don't think it does anything other than taking space.

Hi This morning when I talked to Alexa, I found that my router was offline so I reset it and booted up my computer. After a few minutes it came back online. So I ran CCleaner, something I do every morning, and I was surprised to see that there was a lot of stuff to be removed 8,232 MB total...

After a refresh of Windows I cleaned the system files. Do I need to delete the Windows.old folder too?

I need 8GB free device space so I did a little analysis and I can't do that; my windows folder (pc/Acer/windows) is taking up 24.8 GB out of 28GB how can I solve this? Is this even normal? Can I even solve this? I would really appreciate your help.:chuncky:

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When I go to a web site and start to enter my email address, a drop down list appears that contains email addresses to choose from. However, some of the addresses are old and I don't use them anymore and one of them is incorrect. Is there a way to clean up the list. I presume this is a windows...

I have a Lenovo G510 PC and have for some time been upgraded to Windows 10, but have problems including With Windows Update, when an error message appears and it does not update. I have run disk cleanup and see that there are many files etc that I can delete. The 3 pictures show it. It is among...

I have 1100 files in this folder. Can I delete them? Thanks. Jim B.

I've used and trusted CCleaner for years, but am afraid to launch its registry cleaning function. Have any of you tried it without any ill results? I know that it does back up the registry, but I still have a mental block when it comes to messing with the registry.