Free Automatic PC Cleaner for Windows 11/10/8/7

Is there a free program to clean up my computer?

"There are a lot of unknown files piled up on my hard drive. I used to do disk clean up to remove them, but I feel tired to clean them by myself. I'm wondering whether there is a free program or automatic PC cleaner to clean up my computer automatically. Thanks in advance."

It's common to find your computer is full of all kinds of useless files and folders, which is certainly slowing down your PC performance. When you encounter such an issue, your first thought might be asking help for Windows built-in programs like disk cleanup.

It's no doubt that performing disk cleanup can help a lot. However, a number of users have reported that the useless files can't be removed completely, the free space released from it is not enough, and most importantly, manual operations are required with disk cleanup. That's why they long for an automatic cleaner for PC to clear out the junk files from their computers.

How to free up space with automatic PC cleaner?

Fortunately, Windows system includes a feature called Storage Sense that can be seen as a free automatic PC cleaner. It provides you with an automatic way to clean your disks regularly. With it, you don't have to struggle to manually erase temporary files or unknown folders to keep your hard drive clean. Now the steps below will show you how to turn on Storage Sense and how to configure it to clean up disk automatically:

Step 1. Press "Windows + I" key simultaneously to open Settings window and then click "System".

Step 2. On the left side of the window, go to "Storage".

Step 3. On the right side, the Storage Sense should be enabled by default, if it's not, you can turn on Storage Sense by activating its switch.

Step 4. Under the Storage Sense switch, there's a link called "Configure Storage Sense or run it now." To change how Storage Sense works on your Windows PC, click on it to further operate.

Step 5. On the "Configure Storage Sense or run it now" page, you can configure Storage Sense to run Every day, Every week, or Every month. For deleting temporary files, you can change the time to 1 day, 14 days, or 60 days as you like.

What is the best cleaning program for PC?

As we can see from the content above, Storage Sense only automatically clean up your computer when you're low on disk space and the amounts of space can be freed is not big enough. To this end, I recommend you the best free PC cleaner named AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard to replace the Windows 11 built-in automatic PC cleaner.

With AOMEI software, it's effective to scan all kinds of junk files on your computer, like temporary files or registry files, and to remove them quickly to free up space on your disks. For its clear and clean interface, you can easily get it done. Now, you can download this freeware to see how to clean up your computer to make your PC run faster.

Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, and then click "Free up" > "PC Cleaner".

Step 2. In the pop-up window, click "Start Scan" to scan for junk files.

Step 3. Wait until the scanning process completes.

Step 4. After the scan is completed, all kinds of available junk files will be listed. Then, tick the options you want to clean, then click "Clean All" to begin the cleaning process.

Step 5. When you see a correct symbol displayed in the interface, you can click "Back" to exit the Window.

Not just a PC cleaner : more features to optimize disk performance

What worth mentioning is that AOMEI Partition Assistant is more than a simple PC cleaner, but also a disk optimizer which is featured with many other useful functions to free up more available space so as to optimize your disk performance. The latter content will show you two of the most welcomed features to speed up your PC. Please upgrade to Professional edition and see them one by one.

Way 1. Move apps

"APP Mover" feature is popular for it can move any thing that can be moved in Windows to any location on your computer. It's an extremely useful way to solve C drive full problem. Here are the steps:

Step 1. Install and run the application mover, go to "Free up" > "App Mover".

Step 2. In the pop-up window, choose the partition that you want to free up via moving apps (here is partition C)and click "Next".

Step 3. In the window, all movable apps on C drive will be listed. You can choose one or multiple apps that you need to move and the destination partition ( here I choose D drive). Then click "Move" to execute the operation. 

Step 4. Confirm that you have closed the apps that you will move from C drive to D drive. Then, click "OK". 

Step 5. Wait for the move process to complete. Then, click "Finish". 

Way 2. Migrate OS to SSD

"Migrate OS to SSD" function has enjoyed good reputation for a long time because it can perfectly help people upgrade to SSD or replace the current SSD with the new one. The below is full guide:

Step 1. Connect the new SSD with your PC and make sure it has been detected by your computer. Then install and open AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. Click "Clone"> "Migrate OS" in the top pane. 

Step 2. Select an unallocated space on SSD and then click "Next". If there is no unallocated space on the SSD, you cannot move to next step, just check "I want to delete all partitions on disk 2 to migrate system to the disk (all data on SSD will be erased)" and then click "Next".

Step 3. In this pop-out window, you can change the partition size according to your actual needs.

Step 4. Then, you will receive a note, read it carefully and keep it in mind. Then click "Finish".

Step 5. Finally, you will back to the main interface, confirm the virtual result. If everything’s fine, click "Apply" to execute it.

Conclusion

Can I find an automatic cleaner for my computer? Now, you have gotten the answer from this passage. Although Windows system has featured with an automatic PC cleaner called Storage Sense, it has some limits in freeing up more space. So, it's recommended that you can switch to AOMEI Partition Assistant. This versatile software is very handy when you have met any disk errors. If you are Windows Server users, you can try its Server Edition.