• CleanSweep2 — When you need extra hard-drive space fast

    FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

    Deanna McElveen

    By Deanna McElveen

    My first use of Windows was 3.1. Back then, I didn’t know how fast a graphical user interface was supposed to be.

    If the operating-system gods determined that Netscape Navigator would take a full minute to load, who was I to question it?

    Today, I question that a lot. There are things in Windows that are slow. Very slow. Not just third-party programs, either. There are features of Windows itself that are just as slow now as they used to be.

    Disk Cleanup is a good example.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.33.0, 2022-08-15).