Most of the PC manufacturers offer plenty of extra software with new PC to attract the users. Usually those are trial versions of paid tools and you don’t need most of them.

Not all the PC buyers are tech-savvy enough to know that. They buy the PC, are happy to get those tools, don’t know that the junk is slowing their system down, and finally once the trial period of the tools ends, all kinds of silly warnings start showing up now and then. And without a doubt, it’s frustrating.

The best way to deal with this issue is, well, to get rid of them. Duh, right ? Only if that was effortless. Isolating them and uninstalling them through the native add/remove programs is time-consuming.

This is where PC Decrapifier comes into the picture.

PC Decrapifier is free and super-simple. You don’t even need to install this program. Just download and run the program, select the programs you want to remove and it will work like  a charm.

Here is a step by step guide to clean up your new system using PC Decrapifier. continue reading…

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Hard drive space is cheaper than ever, but as it always does, your data (and, let’s face it, BitTorrent addiction) somehow expands to fill your space available for storage. Here’s a few simple but effective ways to clean out your hard drive.

Whether you’re looking to free up gigabytes worth of hard drive space or you just want to clear out the extra crud because you’re serious about a clean hard drive, we’ll highlight how to find and remove the biggest space hogging files on your drive, remove unnecessary files hiding deep in your filesystem, and offer a few tips for keeping things clean. The main focus of this guide is on Windows, but I’ll offer up Mac alternatives where available. (Mac users, you may also want to check out this guide to cleaning up and reviving your bloated, sluggish Mac.)

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