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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.

Is anyone else having problems after Windows update installs AMD graphics driver 24.20.11016.6007? My system hangs with a blank black screen at the point where the splash screen should be displayed. The only solution is to keep rebooting until it enters recovery mode. At that point you can...

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 had my machine for quite some time and last month the BSOD started to happen. One damaged windows 10 that I couldn't connect to internet and I hadn't activated restore. Several DLLs So did a clean install but they persist. It happens when I'm playing a game, it can happen withing an hour...

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.

I just figured out it's Windows 10's scheduled maintenance that's messing my pc up. I don't want my thumbnail cached deleted. I don't have Disk Cleanup, CCleaner or System Machanic setup to touch it. How the heck do I stop the daily system maintenance from messing with it ?

So today I went to the windows disk cleanup on my laptop which only has 32GB of storage on it, and it said that I could get 3.9 TB back and that seems impossible since it is 32GB model. It turns out that the thing that was 3.9 TB was the old windows versions that it saved apparently. But it...

I keep getting a nagging pop up suggesting I remove temporary files and delete the old Windows installation. I am not sure why I would want to do this, particularly if I wanted to revert to Windows 7 within the 1 month allowed by Microsoft ?

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