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15 Cleaning Tools for Your PC

15 Cleaning Tools for Your PC
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It’s Time for Spring Cleaning!

Does it take forever for your PC applications to load? Are web pages loading slowly despite your super-fast broadband connection? Is your hard drive riddled with duplicate files and the detritus of old programs and settings? Maybe it’s time for your system to enjoy a bit of spring cleaning. Here are a few free utilities that specialize in "cleaning" your PC. Among other things, these applications can remove unnecessary files, track down duplicates, and help insure clean uninstalls—speeding up your system and cleaning out space used by junk and temporary files.

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    gonzotgreat23 , June 29, 2012 6:52 AM
    Great story. What ever happened to the programs that would scan your system and tell you when you had updated drivers/patches available? I miss being able to be lazy.
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    assasin32 , June 29, 2012 5:40 PM
    gonzotgreat23Great story. What ever happened to the programs that would scan your system and tell you when you had updated drivers/patches available? I miss being able to be lazy.


    You want secbrowing if your using Google Chrome to keep up to date on the extensions. And Nvidia has something that either updates or tells you there is a new update for their GPU driver I believe. I don't have that one installed I just remember seeing it as I updated my driver a few days ago and remember seeing the option. Besides that from what I seen Win7 and Vista updates default drivers every now and than.
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    bigcyco1 , June 29, 2012 9:38 PM
    Great recommendations thank you!
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    Dogsnake , June 29, 2012 10:15 PM
    I just do not get the reason for this article except as a blatant advertisement for these utilities. When Tom's Hardware did a test of many of these and other software claiming to speed up a system, they found zero improvement in system performance (by any measure of it). Some did remove unwanted or obsolete files but that was about it. Also though the software did present a somewhat unified interface for this action, all the clean ups could be done with native application and OS tools. In a few cases the utilities even slowed a system. The registry cleaner section of some of the tools also presents a chance of damaging the system if it is not used by an experienced user. Lastly on 8/2/2011 This page ran the same article citing 12 utilities instead of 15. I would think there is enough new in computers and IT to come up with new subjects. All in all this is just junk journalism and I expect better from Tom,s.
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    anonymous@guest , July 2, 2012 11:37 PM
    I use Regedit and Explorer.
    ;-D
  • -1 Ð
    anonymous@guest , July 22, 2012 3:35 PM
    xana meron kaung pics ng mga cleaning tools like linth free cloth at compress air
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    anonymous@guest , February 23, 2013 10:28 AM
    None of these work on my PC... oh wait, I don't use Windows, hence don't need them. Thank goodness for that!
  • 0 Ð
    lradunovic77 , February 27, 2013 11:25 PM
    Whoever coded this page have no clue, terrible load time
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    basketcase87 , February 28, 2013 12:40 AM
    It seems to me most of these are extremely reduntant (look- another program to clean "useless files"). It would be nice if there was some kind of summary that gave an idea of what had unique features without having to pick through the details of each tool.
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    Fizea , April 11, 2013 7:41 AM
    I wish my software Registry Recycler to be added in this list. Its a total free registry cleaner
  • 0 Ð
    Ilham Januri , April 19, 2013 2:50 AM
    It seems to me most of these are extremely reduntant (look- another program to clean "useless files").
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