System Monitor II is a handy desktop gadget tool for users looking for a lightweight and efficient system monitoring solution on Windows 10 and Windows 11, developed by Igor "Igogo" Bushyn from Ukraine. It allows you to monitor your system's performance effortlessly and without the resource strain typical of intensive programs like AIDA64.

Mechanical hard drives can be very fast when reading sequential files, such as copying movies. But when we usually use the operating system, the most common application is reading scattered files, such as operating system startup, opening programs, web browsing cache, etc. Each time we need to read many small files distributed in different locations on the disk. Mechanical hard drives rely on the magnetic head to constantly seek before it can read. It seeks and reads again and again, so a lot of time is spent on seeking and reading scattered small files.

PrimoCache (formerly called FancyCache) is a very useful Cache Disk program, developed by Romex Software from China. As opposed to virtual memory, it virtualizes the idle space of physical memory, SSD hard drive, or flash drive on your computer into the cache space of your HDD hard drive, making your computer run faster. In other words, it can store the data that needs to be read frequently in the hard disk into a faster storage device such as physical memory, thus effectively improving the performance of the physical hard drive.

Avast Cleanup and Avira System Speedup finally passed AppNee's software audit rules and were included by us. This post is for Avast Cleanup (next one will be Avira System Speedup) - a new generation of comprehensive PC cleanup, optimization and tuneup tookit released by Avast Software from Czech Republic.

When the available space in volume C is becoming less and less or the system runs slower and slower, you don't have to reinstall Windows in order to solve all problems. Instead, before doing that you can try to use Auslogics Windows Slimmer to give your Windows a full trim (to save space and boost performance) and look at the effect.