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Free and Fast PC Cleaner: Cleaning up Your PC to Run Faster
Have you ever found your Windows PC runs slower than the day when you bought it? Don’t worry. This post will introduce you two common ways in Windows and three effective ways in a free and fast PC cleaner to help you clean and speed up your PC quickly.
By Hedy / Updated on May 12, 2023
How can I clean up my computer fast?
"Recently I have noticed that my computer has been running slower than normal, and that even applies to my internet connection which really annoys me. Is there any fast PC cleaner that can help me to clean up my computer and make it run faster? Thanks!"
Generally speaking, slow computer performance is common to see especially after years of constant use. This can be caused by different factors and one of them is C drive full issue. C drive is also know as system drive where the OS is saved. So, when your files are constantly consuming the free space of C drive, your computer becomes certainly sluggish and slow, and even worse, runs into frequent system crashes or meets other common PC errors. Therefore, it's necessary to clean up your C drive regularly to make your PC run faster.
2 common ways to clean up C drive
In order to help users prevent the "PC suddenly slow" problem, Windows has been featured with several methods to free up space from C drive. The two popular and common ways are presented as follows.
► Method 1. Run Disk Cleanup
Disk cleanup is a Windows program that can be seen as a fast PC cleaner to help you deep clean your disks including drive C, D, E, F, etc. If you have many junk files accumulated on C drive, it's a wise decision to ask this utility for help.
★ Type "disk cleanup" in the search box, and hit "Enter".
★ In the Disk Cleanup, select C drive or other drive you want to clean and click "OK".
★ After that, it will calculate how much space you will be able to free on the C drive.
★ And then, tick the files you do not need and click "OK" to confirm the operation.
Note: You are able to click "Clean up system files" to deep clear out some old system files that cannot be deleted easily.
► Method 2. Remove temporary files
Temporary files are what we usually ignore when using some programs and applications. You can directly delete them from "Storage" to clean up C drive.
★ Open start menu and go to "Settings" > "System" > "Storage".
★ Select "Temporary files".
★ All files will be automatically analyzed and listed in the new window and you can see the amounts of them.
★ Click on "Remove files" to delete these Temporary files.
What is the best PC junk cleaner?
Obviously, the space cleaned by the two methods above is not enough to speed up your computer. Thus, you’d better switch to a professional, reliable and fast PC cleaner which can help you clean junk files, caches, and more. AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is such a free fast PC cleaner that can remove all kinds of junk files to free up more available space and enhance overall performance only in several steps.
In addition, this versatile software provides many useful features to help you manage your disk partition better:
◈ You can test the speed of your hard drive so that you will know when is needed to optimize your hard drive.
◈ You can also use it to wipe and partition your hard drive to make an old disk as a new storage device.
◈ You are able to migrate OS to a larger or faster SSD to get better performance with this software.
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No matter which edition of Windows 11/8/7/XP and Vista you are using, free download this fast PC cleaner to start cleaning up your PC to run faster.
3 effective ways to clean up C drive via this fast PC cleaner
Out of the space limitation, here we will mainly introduce you three useful ways to help you clean up and enlarge C drive so as to make your PC faster. Learn it one by one.
► Way 1. Clean up junk files with PC Cleaner
"PC cleaner" is a new feature in AOMEI software to help you efficiently clean up junk files from your computer. Here are the detailed steps:
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. After starting the scan, please wait for a few seconds until the progress bar is loaded.
Step 4. After the scan is completed, System Junk Files and Registry Junk Files will be listed. Depending on your needs, 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 back to the main interface.
► Way 2. Move apps from C drive to D drive
"APP Mover" feature allows you to move big programs or large applications from C drive to another drive that has enough free space so that much more space can be released from the system drive. Since the frequent appearance of "C drive full and D drive empty" issue, let's take "Move apps from C drive to D drive" as an example.
Step 1. Upgrade to AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional and open it. Click "Free up" > "App Mover".
Step 2. Choose the C drive and click "Next".
Step 3. Select apps you want to move, set D drive as the destination path and click on "Move".
Step 4. Click "OK" on the pop-up window to begin moving. After that, click "Finish" to exit the window.
► Way 3. Extend C drive
"Allocate Free Space" is a powerful function that enables you to use the free space in other drives to extend C drive. If you don't want to move programs to another place, you can adopt them to make your PC faster.
Step 1. Open AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. It will show you the basic environment of your disks. Right-click the D: drive, and select "Allocated Free Space".
Step 2. Then, it will pop up the window where you can allocate free space from D: drive to C: drive. After setting up, click "OK".
Step 3. Finally, click "Apply" and "Proceed" to execute the progress.
These are the three most effective ways provided by the fast PC cleaner to speed up your computer. You can choose one according to your needs.
Summary
To draw a conclusion, you can use Windows built-in features to clean up your C drive when you meet slow computer performance problems. If it doesn't satisfy your needs, a fast PC cleaner named AOMEI Partition Assistant will make a difference. Among so many practical functions to increase PC speed, there is always one for you. What's more, if you are a Windows Server user, you can use Server Edition.
