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So is it worth $50 a year? To experienced users, frankly, no. The actual physical performance benefits will be negligible at best if you maintain your system properly, but the psychological benefits could be important, depending on how you look at your computer. The main benefit of Avast Cleanup Premium is the psychological advantage: your computer is being looked after (without you having to do anything) and having its performance boosted by a well known company with an excellent reputation. What’s more, you can use PowerShell or other scripting tools to easily automate these tasks for you.

Drag and drop a desktop shortcut you no longer need into the recycle bin to remove it.

Select Add-ons in your browser to disable and/or remove obsolete browser extensions.

Use the Services tab in Task Manager to Open Services and put programs to sleep.

Right click the Windows Task bar, select Task Manager, select the startup tab to prioritize programs that start with Windows.

Right click a hard drive, select Properties and then Disk Clean-up to clean out the junk.

However, they are also all things you can do yourself in Windows, and for free. Avast Cleanup Premium will do all those things for you. There is a definite benefit to cleaning up old files, cleaning up your hard disks, removing old shortcuts, cleaning out old apps from your browser and deleting junk.

Otherwise, if you use Windows 10 and have half-decent computer hygiene habits, you may not see a boost at all.

If you have not maintained your PC for years and have been steadily installing and uninstalling apps during that time, you may get an initial performance boost. The jury is still out on whether registry cleaners actually deliver any performance benefit or not.