You might be neglecting the one thing that keeps your PC healthy
While Windows has some built-in tools to help you keep your PC running smoothly, there's a better option.
Many people overlook the importance of keeping their desktop PCs healthy, beyond just physical cleaning. Windows itself has tools like Disk Cleanup, Storage Sense, and PC Manager that can help remove unwanted files, but they often get overlooked. A test of these tools showed that Disk Cleanup only freed about 1.66GB of space, while Storage Sense and PC Manager were more effective, with PC Manager removing about 90% of the actual junk files.
The main culprits were a large NVIDIA shader cache, Chrome cache, and app crash dumps that these tools missed. To keep your PC running smoothly, it's recommended to use Storage Sense with a weekly or monthly schedule and run PC Manager's deep cleanup once a month. Additionally, uninstalling apps using Revo Uninstaller Free can help remove any leftover files and registry entries that other tools might miss.
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