The ultimate PC tuneup. Speed up and clean your PC, update your apps, and fix annoying problems. Many programs run automatically when you turn your PC on, significantly slowing its startup time. Our tuneup process detects performance drains and stops them for you, without making you uninstall programs or interfering with your PC.
These are a waste of space and speed, and may even be a security risk. Our new Software Cleanup feature gets rid of them once and for all. Take the guesswork out of figuring out which programs you no longer need with our cloud-based reputation and unneeded-program detection systems. Our Defrag detects SSDs and prolongs their health.
Every day you use your PC, it becomes cluttered with leftover files from Windows, your programs, or just from browsing the web. Had enough of toolbars crashing on your browser like a bad houseguest? Let our cloud-based reputation system, with ratings from millions of users, help you decide which search extensions, plugins, and toolbars you really need.
Run a deep scan for application leftovers that take up valuable storage space. Your PC accumulates a ton of wasteful data every day. Our Automatic Maintenance regularly removes these junk files for you. We remove the leftover cache files and traces from your browser, programs, and Windows. The registry plays a critical role in any Windows operating system, so issues here can result in program crashes and error messages. Over time, your hard disk file and folder structure could become damaged, leading to data loss and crashes.
Your hard disk is structured like a book: An index pointing to chapters and pages. This can lead to missing files, applications no longer working or even Windows crashing.
Our Disk Doctor checks for such structural errors and fixes them in no time. Files on your disk can become corrupt for various reasons, such as sudden power losses.
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Bug fixes are part of many updates, so Software Updater helps you enjoy your software with fewer annoying crashes and error messages. New updates often bring new features. Software Updater installs the updates for you automatically, so the next time you open your favorite app, any new features will be ready to go. Our Avast Cleanup release has exceeded expectations in our internal tests.
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Detects leftover data, hidden battery drainers, and helps you organize your phone. We also detect blurry and poor photos for you to delete! A password manager is an essential add-on, we'd recommend you start with one of these if you haven't already made your choice : Lastpass , 1Password , KeePass or Dashlane. Also worth mentioning, there's a new open source alternative in town called Bitwarden. We've yet to review it extensively but many early adopters love it. Start here: Use Dropbox free for documents and other essential files, sync between devices.
Google Photos for family memories and sharing. Full backups: Use a paid service to back up all your data to the cloud. It's relatively inexpensive. Cloud storage and backup are a must-have in your toolbox. There is nothing more convenient than accessing data from any place or device, and having that data sync across devices. Backing up and restoring information has never been smoother either, and even though there's a huge array of options we've long been spoiled by Dropbox's ease of use.
Dropbox offers 2GB of free cloud storage which is not much, but you can earn up to 18GB via referrals and a few other tricks For most users we often recommend using this along with Google Photos , which allows you to save an unlimited amount of photos and videos, including automatic backups from your smartphone, then put on the Google cloud and made easily searchable. We love the service. If you have bigger storage requirements, we'd look at all the best alternatives and the different pricing tiers before making the decision.
Odds are you already rely in one or more than one of these four. Luckily competition for cloud backup has been fierce for a few years and prices have come down a little. Finally, for full backups, there are better suited alternatives than the above. First of all, you get specialized backup software, file versioning, and often unlimited storage so you can offload terabytes of data and remain at ease.
Windows user: WhatsApp and Hangouts for video. WhatsApp to reach everyone. For work: Slack or Microsoft Teams. For gaming: Discord or TeamSpeak. Information is power but having the right information at the right time is even more important. The most ubiquitous personal messaging platforms are WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger , though only the former offers native desktop applications. For video calls Skype remains one of the more popular options but honestly, we kind of hate it these days, it's a convoluted mess.
Google Hangouts can be used free for voice and video calls, several people can join on a single meeting and because it's web-based it works across all platforms. In fact, if you're running Chrome there's nothing you need to do to join a meeting. If you have controllable fans, you might want something like SpeedFan to fine-tune how they operate. Overlooking the importance of updated drivers can cause serious headaches. The performance will often be significantly lower than seen in benchmarks and, understandably, it can seem like your card is bad.
Now you know what drivers your new PC build needs and which ones are the most important. We have downloaded drivers to USB drive along with Windows 10, but when trying to install windows, no drivers are found.
Windows will not load past this step. It does not have wifi so do i download the lan or should I should i use a WiFi adapter because i wont have access to the modem? Audio driver? Thank you so much for you help. This helped me alot! Thanks alot! We recently reviewed an awesome pair of gaming headphones. Check out the review HERE.
We have decided to give a pair away just in time for Christmas and the holiday season. Please enter the giveway using the Gleam competion below. Good luck! Last updated Nov 13, What drivers do you need for a new PC build? Written by Branton. There are pros and cons for each. Transferring your operating system and all your data and installed apps means not having to worry about reinstalling Windows, setting it up the way you like it again, and then reinstalling each of your apps.
The bad news is that this is a slow and tedious process. Most new drives come with tools to make it happen. You can go that way with a desktop, too, but it may be easier just to install the new drive, do the transfer, and then decide whether to leave the old drive in place for extra storage or uninstall it. There are also advantages to just performing a clean installation of your operating system on your new drive. The big one is that you get to start fresh. You get to set it the way you want, and only install what you want.
The downside, of course, is that you have to do all that. Different laptops have different methods for accessing the storage drive compartment, if they allow easy access at all. Some business-class designs let you swap out a drive by removing a single screw, others might need you to completely remove the bottom of the machine or even take out the keyboard.
You can usually find specific instructions by searching the web for your laptop manufacturer and model. That loosens the metal body plate enough to let me pull it off the computer. You can see the hard drive in the lower-left corner. To pull the drive itself out, I need to remove another screw, pull the drive up a bit, and then slide it off of the integrated SATA connection. For this model, the drive caddy is just a thin piece of aluminum with a rubber bumper. I pulled it off, and then placed it on the new drive.
Then, I reverse the process, slipping the new drive onto the SATA connection in the laptop, screwing the caddy back down to the frame, and replacing the body panel. Again, this process is going to vary quite a lot depending upon which laptop you have. This process is a bit more involved than on a laptop, but the good news is that getting the case off and accessing the drive is typically a lot easier than on most laptops.
If you built your own PC, the screws needed to install your new drive should have come with the case—I hope you kept the box of accessories. Power down your machine and remove all cables, then move it to your work area. Most designs require you to remove two to three screws from the back side before it will slide or swing out.
Set the access panel aside. Some desktops require that you take the whole case cover off rather than just an access panel. Instructions should be easy to find. Take a moment to orient yourself. A SATA data cable should be running from the motherboard to the drive. A SATA power cable should be running from the power supply to the drive.
In newer designs this is often behind the motherboard itself—remove the opposite access panel to check. You can also leave the cables attached to the motherboard and power supply and then just connect them to the new drive after installing it.
First, unplug the data and power cables from the back of the old drive. If the drive is on a sliding caddy, remove it and note that some sliding caddies are screwed into place.
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