Performing regular maintenance is crucial for ensuring a PC delivers a smooth experience. Here’s a guide on how to clean up your hard drive.

Do not shake or drop the hard drives. Even an accidental drop can cause internal mechanical damage to the drive platters.

Clean an Overcrowded Hard Drive. Answer Line By Lincoln Spector, Jan 9, 2012 7:47 am PST. Arther needs to make room on his hard disk drive. He asked the Desktops forum for advice.

Hard drive space is cheaper than ever, but as Parkinson's Law dictates, your data (and, let's face it, BitTorrent addiction) somehow expands to fill ...

Be aware, too, that you should always create a Windows system restore point before using Advanced Registry Optimizer 2010–or any Registry cleaner–in case it makes changes that cause your PC problems..