So, your brand new PC or laptop fair flies - at first - then, over time, just seems to get more and more bogged down. What’s more the tools out there that may help seem high-end-techno-nerdish and geeky. Not only is there a simple solution, you can easily tune up your PC using free utilities and in many cases get a better result than using expensive commercial products.

Advanced WindowsCare Personal from IObit is a stand-out one click cleaning product. The free Personal Version is feature reduced but really only lacks in one area: it doesn’t defragment your hard drive. However IObit also make an excellent free defrag program called SmartDefrag. Together these make a remarkably complete tune-up package.

OK, so it ends up being two clicks! The first to find all the problems, and the second to fix them. That’s it! Now if you have the time and inclination, you can also (between the clicks) review a list of programs that are automatically starting on your system, and un-tick any that you know to be outdated or not required. They are listed with useful descriptions and recommendations to help you decide.