[Free] Best Windows PC Cleaning Tools

What Windows PC cleaning tools can clean up PC effectively? In this article, we will introduce three PC cleaners, including Microsoft Total PC Cleaner, CCleaner and AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. You can choose the best one to clean your PC after comparing.

Posted by @Tina December 17, 2024 Updated By @Tina May 12, 2023

Scenario

 

"My computer is so slow that I want to clean it. But I don’t know of Windows PC cleaning tools worth trying. Can I clean my computer completely? Apart from Windows built-in PC cleaning tools, do you know any practical computer cleaner that doesn't need to cost? thanks for your help."

Why should we cleaning PC?

Why should we need to clean the computer regularly? When you use the computer, many files are naturally generated, such as temporary internet files, thumbnails, program files, temporary system files, etc. Over time, these unnecessary files accumulated in your computer and take up space on it. If you don't clean up our computer in time, you will face the impact of low disk space.

Therefore, in order to make the computer running faster, we need to clean up it with some practical Windows PC cleaning tools. Next, we will introduce 3 popular Win PC cleaners.

Popular Windows PC cleaning tools for Windows 10 & 11

After knowing the serious consequences of not cleaning your computer from the previous article, maybe you'll need some Windows cleaners for PC to free up disk space. Please read the following sections carefully to choose the best tool to fully clean up your PC.

Case 1. Microsoft Total PC Cleaner

Microsoft Total PC Cleaner is a PC cleaning software produced by Microsoft corporation, dedicated to removing junk files including cache files, system caches and other junk files from the computer, achieving the purpose of freeing the computer in a short time. Here are the detailed steps to clean up your computer with it:

Step 1. Open this PC cleaning tool, you can see a tip to confirm your system disk, please read the sentences carefully and then click "Continue".

Step 2. Select the C drive as your target drive, click "Select Folder".

Step 3. Click "Start Scan" to search the selected drive.

Step 4. All founded unnecessary files will be listed out, you can see the size of them, click "Clean".

Step 5. The note "Your disk has been cleaned!" shows that you have completed this cleaning task, click "Done".

Case 2. CCleaner

Another common computer cleaning software is CCleaner, which you may often see when you read articles related to cleaning computer on the web. Developed by Piriform, it can junk files such as cookies and browsing history.

However, online reviews of this PC cleanup freeware are highly polarized, as it has some hidden dangers. Not only can it carry malwares, but it also has major flaws such as updating without users’ permission, monitoring users' PC, and being difficult to shut down.

Case 3. Free AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard (Hot)

You can easily see from the previous article: Microsoft Total PC Cleaner is safe, but it cannot completely scan out and remove all the junk files hidden in the computer; CCleaner is not safe enough. Is there any better Windows PC cleaning tool?

Here I would like to introduce you AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, a safe and comprehensive computer cleaning master. It doesn't automatically update without your admission, and it doesn't steal users' information. This computer cleaner just focuses on its work: in a few simple steps, completely scan the computer and easily delete all junk files including system-related files and registry files from the computer.

Let's implement this Windows PC cleaner free download and see how it works.

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Step 1. Download and run this Windows PC cleaning tool, you'll see all the disks and partitions on your computer, click "Free up" and then "PC Cleaner". 

Step 2. There will be a tip: "Approximate 1.26 GB disk space you can free up", click "Start Scan" to search for junk files.

Step 3. Wait for a while, the tool is scanning your PC.

Step 4. All junk files will be listed, choose the files you want to delete (Some junk files will be choose by default.), then click "Clean All".

Step 5. Click "Back" when the PC cleaning task is completed.

Advanced: Deeply delete large files to free up PC space

When there's some large files stubbornly stored on your PC, you can upgrade to the Professional Version, deeply scan and delete large files larger than 16MB, duplicate files also cannot escape. In addition, more advanced features to free up space are provided:

Move the program to another drive: Safely move the programs to another drive and release the full drive.  Allocate free space: When the C drive is full, you can move the free space of other drives to extend it.

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Step 1. Download and open the Demo, click "Free up" and "Delete Large Files".

Step 2. Choose the target disks and click "Start Scan" to scan for the large files.

Step 3. All large files in the drive will be found out, choose some large files and click "Delete". (PS. Please be more careful when dealing with the large files marked red.)

Step 4. Click "Delete All" to completely delete those large files.

Evaluation

What Windows PC cleaning tools can clean up PC effectively? You can see that AOMEI Partition Assistant is the safest and most efficient computer cleaner. Besides cleaning up your PC, it can also help you wipe hard drive, resize partitions and solve other common computer disk managing problems.

By the way, we have a dedicated Server Edition for Windows Server users; for those enterprise users, we also have the Unlimited Version that can be used by multiple people at the same time.