If you’re using a “registry cleaner” or “disk cleaner” application (CCleaner, Wise Cleaner and Auslogics are three popular examples), you should stop now. You’re wasting your money (up to $30 a year ...

Waste of time 99% of the time.<BR><BR>The typical reason given for 'cleaning' registry is something along the lines of 'registry too big = system slowdown', and is devoid of knowledge about how the ...

InformationWeek has a great article comparing ten Windows Registry Cleaning software titles. They tested each title on an identical disk configuration. I made a disk "image" (a bit-for-bit exact copy ...

Microsoft is now detecting the popular CCleaner Windows optimization and Registry cleaner program as a potentially unwanted application (PUA) in Microsoft Defender. CCleaner is a junk file remover, ...

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 ...

If there’s one software category that program makers never tire of taking a crack at it’s registry cleaners. As many Microsoft Windows users know, the registry is a database of all the settings on a ...

Windows PCs tend to slow down over time on account of all the digital junk that builds up over time. Startup times become longer, files get messy, and the entire user experience becomes sluggish. And ...