Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Clearing out your computer's temporary files helps increase performance and frees up space for more data; however, whenever you delete files on your PC, there's always a risk of inadvertently causing ...

There are times when users must make efforts to clear their Windows 11/10 cache, but not everyone knows how. This can be a problem, especially since Microsoft does not employ a single action in order ...

When you’re working on your computer, Windows creates temporary files for temporary use. These files are generated for backup purposes and to store information in a short period of time. They are ...

How to find and delete unwanted files on your PC is a chore everyone thinks is going to take hours, when in fact it takes just a minute or two. Just don’t use Windows 10’s File Explorer! The Windows ...

It happens. The longer we keep our devices, the more cluttered they become. Open your phone's app tray for a great example. How many are sitting there that you haven't opened in months or years? This ...

In a user's computer, temporary Internet files are a collection of the most recent pages and files downloaded from the Web. The files are stored in a folder that acts as a cache so that subsequent ...

It's a disaster waiting to happen.

I traced my missing gigabytes back to Windows.

I've been having issues with running out of room on my C: drive even though I usually keep about 200 gigs free (games and such installed on a different drive), and I have figured out the following: 1.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 creates temporary files while performing certain actions on your computer. These temporary files are not automatically removed by Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011, leaving your ...