There's a trend lately for all the popular security/antivirus makers to hit you up for an additional contribution for tools that "keep your computer running just like it did that first day out of its box". I'm a skeptic. I tend to say "Bullshit!" Nothing that's been used - your car, your wife, your socks, your underwear, and especially your computer is ever going to be "just as good as it was new". That's a fantasy, Kiddies, just like The Fairy Godmother, or The Wizard of Oz.
The Good News is, there are a couple I've tried (and still actually use!) that do seem to work OK without trashing my system's inner workings. And those would be the freebie versions of Glary Utilities and CCleaner. Both of these seem to be working OK in Windows 10, as well as previous versions of Windows.
You can do something similar by yourself, if you make desktop shortcuts to your User Temp, Windows Temp, and Prefetch folders, and then remember to use them periodically, but Glary Utilities and CCleaner do a more comprehensive job with less effort on your part. However, I still like to look at Prefetch and those Temp folders occasionally, just to make sure nothing's piling up in them. And I know Microsoft has said we don't need to dump Prefetch to force it to renew itself with its main essentials, but it does seem to work better if we do this periodically. And "if it works, don't fix it".
Here's a screen of Windows 7 showing those three icons for Windows Temp, User Temp, and Prefetch. You can do the same in Win-8, 8.1, and 10.
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