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step one was to create the kind of bloated bogged down system that would

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send someone looking for a remedy so we downloaded every piece of free software

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and sprinkled in a generous helping of RGB control applications which might not

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sound that bad but it took our system from booting up in 28 seconds to booting

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up in over a minute and guys that's on a

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to do what the average person would do and Google best PC speed up tools where

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almost immediately we noticed a pattern most of the review sites for these tools

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recommended the same handful of tools over and over and over again which might

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seem like a case of hey experts agree

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until you dig just a little bit deeper

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what is this for every tool on their recommended list includes Windows 10

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offers comparable built-in tuneup tools

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why the Sam fool are you recommending that I buy other software to find out we

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took the one Brave step that no one else seemed to be willing to take we actually

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bought and installed the most recommended PC speed up tools to see if

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they could fix what ails us spoiler some

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of them actually work work pretty well but you can achieve a similar result for

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free all it'll cost you is patiently listening to this message from our

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sponsor glet meet the Flint 2 your

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networking Ally it runs on vanilla openwrt has speeds of up to 900 megabit

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per second and even has multi-wan support check it out at the link down

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below after braving the infested listicle Wasteland that used to be

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Google's search results page we decided to dig further into a shampoo win

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Optimizer a vast cleanup C cleaner AVG tuneup IObit Advanced system care 17 Pro

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and Microsoft PC manager if a free trial

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of the premium features was available we used that otherwise we bought the

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software outright and the last line You'll Find on our performance charts is

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a fresh Windows install to see how close our tools can get to the outof the-box

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experience now one of the most common complaints is my computer takes forever

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to start up and every one of these applications includes a dedicated tool

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to help address this that honestly works pretty well across the board our desktop

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to desktop reboot times dropped by at least 30 seconds but there were some

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standouts IObit and C cleaner led the pack cutting our time by more than half

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can't say I expected that given that IObit added six of its own applications

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to our startup sequence but hey you can't argue with the results which is

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unfortunate for Microsoft who seem to know less about debloating their own

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operating system than these third parties with that said it's not like it

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was all bad news for Redmond as you would expect a clean Windows install

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topped the charts which is probably going to be a bit of a pattern here now

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we need to address our pet room elephants why is it that a shampoo and

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AVG have a did not finish here it's more

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of a DNT on a shampoo site we were

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overwhelmed by just how many pieces of software they made and when we did find

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win Optimizer the one that the review sites told us to use there was six

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different options we could have just gone with the latest one version 27 but

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we didn't even feel like we could trust that since if you refresh the page or

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clear your cookies the price would change every single time it even went as

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low is free if you bought it with another piece of software this Rabbit

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Hole actually goes much deeper and we will we'll touch on it after some more

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benchmarks But ultimately this caused us to be uncertain about what we were even

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buying we just killed it from our testing as for AVG they were actually

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bought by aast back in 2016 and since over the years they've become almost the

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same piece of software except for AVG requires a credit card to start the free

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trial no see you later we're over it and yes C cleaner is also owned by aast but

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the UI and the features were different enough that we just decided to keep it

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in our testing kicking off our productivity Suite then we started by

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encoding a 10 1080p video in hand bre which is a really useful test because

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the run-to-run variance is extremely tight allowing us to demonstrate the

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small but measurable effects of both a bloated system and of these tools now

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obviously these differences are pretty small but given that I expected them to

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be pure snake oil I was actually kind of pleasantly surprised now as you'd expect

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a fresh install of Windows is of course the best medicine but reinstalling

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everything you actually do use can be a timec consuming Endeavor compared to

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just running a vast which landed darn near our fresh install demonstrating

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that these tools well they can't speed up your PC but they may be able to

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actually unslow it or wait unless who in

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cinebench 2024 C cleaner and IO bit tied

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with a clean install in single core but a vast andc cleaner actually won the

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multicore test well except that a 20 point difference

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between all the competitors here is uh not as big as it sounds so if we're

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being realistic everything but the bloated system is within our

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expectations for a clean system which is

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still a good result for our cleaners our last productivity test is szip which is

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great because in addition to looking at our CPU it tests the impact of bloat on

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our poor cluttered up SSD almost all of

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these softwares have some kind of Drive optimization button that tries to clean

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up temporary files clear junk files like old Windows updates and some even go as

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far as to defragment or trim your drive organizing all of the files in a way

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that they are more quickly accessible as for our results wow this is by far the

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biggest difference we've seen yet creating a compressed zip file results

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in as much as a 9% difference between our bloated system and IObit as for the

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rest well regardless of whether we're compressing or de compressing files our

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results ended up falling within the expected run-to-run variant so I guess

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they all work the same but with that said there is a clear difference in the

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experience of using the different Suites while Microsoft PC manager didn't lead

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the packing results and didn't even include a trim function what it did do

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was perform a lot of the other cleanup functions without feeling like bloatware

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plus I mean it's free real estate so far

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for the paid options a vast sea cleaner and IObit have all done pretty well at

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UNS slowing our computer managing to get us on par or at least close to a fresh

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install the question is can they pull off the same in gaming well I would love

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to talk to you about that but first there's something way more important

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that we need to address in researching this project we came across some of the

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most invasive predatory marketing tactics that we have ever seen going

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back to a shampoo you might at first say wow great they're Intel and Microsoft

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Partners but look closely you guys that

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is definitely not the official Microsoft partner logo and neither Intel nor

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Microsoft list a shampoo as a partner in return this is pretty much the tech

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industry equivalent of updating your relationship status except she has

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absolutely no idea who you are and every pick of you together has obvious

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hoverhand and a shampoo wasn't the only

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one whose business practices are in bad condition

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ER IObit was super aggressive when it

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came to completing the sale bombarding us with promotional bundles and using

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any excuse to offer us an enormous discount is it spring is it Mother's Day

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Mom forget the flowers I got you IO bit

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now all I got to do is complete the checkout process and oh my goodness the

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fomo marketing tactics don't stop there

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if you're on the checkout page and you go to close your browser a popup warns

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you that OMG wait for the next 5 minutes

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you can save another 20% which by the way I went for since hey it was Elijah's

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job to sit at the computer and wait for the price change anyway what do I

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care okay I do care these kinds of gross

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tactics are everywhere I mean IObit ticks down a limited offer that resets

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if you clear your cookies so obviously it wasn't that limited and then they

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continue to abuse you even after you purchase the software I have three

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downloads remaining what I paid for the

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licensed version of your software how can you deny me the right to download it

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again especially since I can just download the free version as many times

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as I want and then activate it with my key now for many of you this isn't going

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to be a surprise and you probably won't fall for this stuff but if these tactics

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exist you know it's because they work on someone so just hey for you and yours

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stay safe out there some of the more basic applications that we saw and up

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just wrapping Windows features into a pretty looking interface and then taking

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your money for repackaging what you already had we're going to have a fun

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closer look at that over at lm. g/f Floatplane where John and Elijah talk

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about some of the funny stuff they found during testing that didn't make the YouTube cut now for the gaming results

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please yeah literally the exact same the

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only slight difference is IObit lost 3 FPS in both averages and 1% lows and our

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clean install was only outside of our expected variance compared to our

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applications in one game and even then it was just barely which it's kind of

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confusing right I mean why wasn't our bloated system worse than a clean

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install well for starters modern systems

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usually include multiple CPU cores some of which can manage background

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applications at a lower power State while the main course focus on your game

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and the developers of these tools know this which is why most of them don't

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mention gaming at all and even the ones that do don't focus on it but then okay

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what about the outlandish claims that they do make does that mean those are

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real then IO bit promised to make our system 200% faster and a vast promised

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23% faster work performance how do they

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get away with saying those things when that's clearly not what we measured

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there are millions of potential combinations of computer hardware out

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there and when you add software to the mix those combinations easily balloon

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into the billions so because it's pretty

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much impossible to test every one of these combinations there's just no real

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way to hold these companies accountable for these claims with all of that said

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is there anyone that I would recommend a software package like this for if you're

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watching this video probably not you but

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if you are constantly being bothered by a family member to update their drivers

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delete useless startup items and clear up their storage space then I would say

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a vast and sea cleaner are easy to use applications that can help with that and

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maybe give them a financial incentive to learn this stuff for themselves I would

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have actually included iob bid in that list since they legitimately performed

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well in all of our tests but installing six applications combined with that

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horrible shopping experience just disqualifies them in my book we are

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still going to have all of them linked Down Below in case you want to check them out but I just man these sites some

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of them aren't even worth going to especially because realistically if you

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don't mind spending 5 minutes a month on computer hygiene there are some tricks

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to achieve very similar results while sparing your credit card that are both

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fast and easy you can even do them right now hit control shift escape to open up

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task manager and head to the startup tab from there you can choose which

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applications you want on Startup and which ones you're okay to open manually

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if this takes you even 3 minutes and then saves you 30 seconds on every

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reboot you are going to make up that time you spent in just six reboots

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taking that a step further if you're noticing that there are apps in there that you haven't used in Forever hey

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maybe it's time to just uninstall them search add or remove programs and then

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take your time going through the list and looking for apps to remove this

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won't only stop that app from starting up on boot but it should also help free

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up some storage space speaking of storage if you want to deag or trim your

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drive the Windows search bar is your new best friend in most of your cases these

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tasks will run automatically but if not you can change that setting here or you

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can press the optimize button to run them right now this can take a while

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though on slower mechanical drives so just maybe let it run on the schedule or

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run it the last thing before you go to bed another storage tool is disc cleanup

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just scroll through the lists and confirm what you'd like to clean the

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biggest ones are probably going to be your recycle bin and your temporary files then click okay and just like that

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you've probably saved a couple dozen gigs if you haven't done this in a

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couple years our final tip tip is if you really need more performance it may just

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be time for an upgrade and guys I'm not talking about a whole new system but the

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thing is many of these tools are targeting people who are on older

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systems that might still be using an old school hard drive as their main system

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boot drive but the issue with that is at

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the price of this software you could just buy an SSD that would result in a

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truly meaningful day-to-day performance Improvement and then clone all of your

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data over to it with a convenient free trial tool like macrium or another

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option would be this one from as shampoo just make sure to refresh the page a few

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