Maintaining good disk health is one of the most important tasks to keep Windows desktop PCs running at peak performance. Both Windows 11's built-in Disk Cleanup tool and similar third-party utilities ...

Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.

Whether you have a cutting-edge blazing fast solid-state drive or an ancient magnetic hard disk drive, you are probably filling them with a ton of files you no longer need. Storage bloat involves more ...