Download File Cleaner: How to Fast Delete Files in Windows 10 & 11

Why PC is so slow to delete files?

You may want to clean and speed up your computer once you feel your computer is too slow. However, it is always slow and wastes a lot of time when using the computer to directly clean up many files. Why?

Because when the computer searches and deletes many files, the Windows system will calculate and analyze the specific information of the target files. Generally, the more files there are, the more time it will take to delete them. 

Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency of deleting files, you may need to master some methods to fast delete files in Windows 10.

Solved- How to fast delete files in Windows 10

On the web, many users complain that using File Explorer to delete files is rather slow. In order to get a much cleaner computer as quickly as possible, we provide other 2 built-in tools on Windows to delete files faster.

│Method 1. Via CMD

As one of the most famous Windows built-in tools, CMD can always help us solve computer problems. When you want to delete files faster on Windows 10, please refer to the following steps to operate:

Step 1. Type "cmd" in the Windows search bar and press "Enter".

Step 2. Enter "del "path to file"" command in CMD and press "Enter" to execute it. Here, we take "del "D:\Digital Citizen\sample.jpg"" as an example.

│ Method 2. Via PowerShell

Another Windows command prompt tool- PowerShell, is also a good way to fast delete files in Windows 10.

Step 1. Type "powershell" in the Windows search bar and press "Enter" to open it.

Step 2. Enter "del "D:\Digital Citizen\sample.jpg"" and press "Enter".

Fast deleting large files on Windows 10 with a powerful PC Cleaner

In fact, too many large files on the computer will slow down your PC. So, when there are many large files in your computer, we recommend you to use AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, which can be the fastest way to delete files on Windows 10.

With it, you needn't type difficult commands like in the CMD. Because with just a few clicks, you can completely scan your PC and fast delete files (larger than 16MB) on Windows 10. Besides, it marks important large files in red to prevent PC crash due to the accidental deletion of important files.

What’s more, this all-round PC manager also provides you with various disk managing functions, including allocate free space, clone the hard drive or OS only to another drive, recover lost data, convert the system disk between MBR and GPT, etc.

Let's see how to delete files fast in Windows 10.

Step 1. Install and open this powerful tool, click "Free up" and "Delete Large Files".

Step 2. In the new window, click the drive your want to scan for large files and then click "Start Scan".

Step 3. All large files will be found out, tick the target files you decide to delete and than click "Delete".

Step 4. You can see the information of the selected large files. Click "Delete Now", then the selected large files can be removed from your PC.

Tip: If you want clean up junk files on your PC to free up space, you can use the "PC Cleaner" feature.

│Further reading: Move applications to another drive

When your computer space is insufficient, especially when the C drive is full, you can try to use "App Mover" to migrate some programs you don’t want to uninstall to another drive for freeing up space.

Step 1. In the main interface, click "Free up" and click "App Mover".

Step 2. Here are two options, select "App Mover".

Step 3. Select the drive you want to free up and click "Next".

Step 4. Choose the target applications and select a drive as the destination drive, click "Move".

Step 5. Click "OK" to start moving the applications.

Verdict

How to fast delete files in Windows 10? In this post, we shared 2 methods and the multi-functional AOMEI Partition Assistant to quickly clean up your PC and improve its performance.

By the way, when your computer is a Windows Server PC, you can go to the Server Edition; when you want multiple people to use AOMEI, you can go to the Unlimited Version.