If your old workhorse of a PC is starting to slow down in its old age, these low (or no-) cost tricks can help put some pep in its processing step.

Computing purists will tell you not to bother with utility apps that purport to clean, tweak and speed up your PC or Mac. I used to be one of them, and long ago and far away, we pharisees were right.

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