[4 Ways] How to Clean And Speed Up Your Computer for Free

Why the computer slow down?

If you usually use a computer, you'll find that over time, you've run into a common problem - computer slowness. Why does the computer slow down? The following are possible reasons.

✦ C drive is full. C drive refers to the system disk. When the C drive space is insufficient, it may cause the computer to slow down or even computer freeze.
✦ Malware in the computer. When malware invades the computer, it will automatically generate a lot of useless files to occupy the PC space.
✦ File fragmentation. The distribution of file fragments in the computer can also reduce PC work efficiency. Because when reading a file, the head needs to keep jumping around the disk to find the file fragments all over the computer.<
✦ Too many junk files. If too many junk files accumulate in your computer, your computer will undoubtedly slow down.

Is it beneficial to clean and speed up computer?

As you can see, the main factors that slow down your computer include a full C drive and too many junk files. Therefore, cleaning and speeding up your computer is beneficial. Cleaning up the computer can remove the hidden junk files and release the C drive space to a certain extent, so as to achieve the purpose of speeding up the computer.

Thus, it's necessary to learn how to clean up your laptop and make it run faster for free. Next, we will share 3 methods to clean and speed up the computer.

How to clean and speed up your computer for free

To speed up your computer, you can take the following different measures depending on the factors that slow down your computer.

│Method 1. Run Disk Cleanup

Disk Cleanup is always the first choice for people to clean their computer. This is a tool that comes with Windows and can clean up thumbnails, Windows update files, deliver optimization files, temporary files, etc. It is used as follows:

Step 1. Press the "Windows" to open the Run program, then input "cleanmgr.exe" and click "Run as administrator". Select the target drive in the pop-up small window, here we select C drive.

Step 2. Tick the files you want to remove, click "OK" to delete all of them.

│Method 2. Clean up malware

Since malware can have a very negative impact on your computer, you should check your computer in time and remove these potential hazards. You can download it from the official website and use a reliable software to do this.

│Method 3. Defragment files

Since file fragmentation will reduce the work efficiency of the computer, you'd better defrag the computer disk regularly.

Step 1. In the start search bar, enter "defrag". Click "Best Bets" and "Defragment and Optimize Drives" to open this app.

Step 2. Select the C drive, then click "Change Settings" in the new window.

Step 3. Set the defragmentation frequency and choose the target drive, then tick "Increase task priority" and click "OK".

Clean and speed up computer with a better accelerator

When you encounter too many junk files and file fragments at the same time, are you tired of running around in different tools to solve them? In order to speed up PC more easily, we would like to recommend a free software to speed up laptop or desktop to you: AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard.

This all-in-one software can not only completely clean all junk files in your PC, but also run a disk defragment in a few simple steps. In addition, it can perform many disk managing functions, including resize partition (even the BitLocker partition), format partition, wipe hard drive, etc.

Let's see how to clean and speed up your computer for free.

Step 1. Download and open AOMEI, you can see all the PC disks and partitions in the interface, click "Free up" and "PC Cleaner".

Step 2. You can know the free space you can get with the tip "Approximate 1.26 GB disk space you can free up", click "Start Scan".

Step 3. You're in the process to scan all junk files in the target drive.

Step 4. All junk files will be listed, select the target junk files and click "Clean All".

Step 5. When all the junk files are deleted, click "Back".

To gain more space, many users unwillingly uninstall applications from their computers. With AOMEI, you can use "App Mover" to safely move installed applications to another drive without reinstalling by simply upgrading to the Professional Version.

PS.: You can also use the "Remove Large Files" feature to scan your computer thoroughly, removing unwanted large files over 16MB to further clean up and speed up your computer.

Step 1. In the interface of the AOMEI Professional Demo, click "Free up" and click "App Mover".

Step 2. Here, please select "App Mover".

Step 3. Select the drive where target applications located, then click "Next".

Step 4. Choose the applications you want to migrate and select the drive which you want to move these applications to, then click "Move".

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

Wrapping up

How to clean and speed up your computer for free? In this article, we share 3 methods and a perfect software AOMEI Partition Assistant to help you. Besides the mentioned functions, AOMEI also has advanced functions such as allocate free space and migrate OS to SSD.

By the way, AOMEI Partition Assistant has also developed the Server Edition, which is exclusively for Windows Server users; the Unlimited Version, which is suitable for multiple employees of the company; the Technician Version, which is suitable for technicians.