Windows Computer Cleanup Freeware—Speed up Now!

Why do we have to clean the computer regularly? Many files are produced automatically while you use the computer, such as temporary internet files, thumbnails, application files, temporary system files, and so on. Regardless of how large your hard drive is, after a lengthy period of use, all unneeded files amass on your computer and eat up space on it. If you do not clean out your computer promptly, you will suffer the consequences of insufficient disk space.

Thus, to simplify the clean task, computer cleaning software can scan the target locations, users can assign a drive, disk or the system to run this kind of software. After the scanning, the tool will guide you to clean junk files.

Clean PC with Windows cleaning tools

Windows has built-in tools to clear disks and system.

1. Use Disk Cleanup

Step 1. Type "disk cleanup" in the search box, and hit "Enter".

Step 2. In the Disk Cleanup, select C drive or other drives you want to clean and click "OK".

Step 3. You can see how much space you can use Disk Cleanup to free up, tick the files you do not need, and click "OK" to confirm the operation.

Step 4. You can also click “Clean up system files” to clean Windows system files. But don’t delete important system files incautiously.

2. Enable Storage Sense

Step 1. Click the "Start" button, and select "Settings".

Step 2. On the Windows Settings interface, click on "System".

Step 3. Select "Storage" on the left side and toggle the "Storage Sense" button to "On". It will free up your disk space automatically when it detects that your PC is low on space.

Windows computer cleanup freeware

Using Windows built-in tools could only clear basic junk files like outdated files, part of temp files, etc. Unlike third-party computer cleaning software, built-in tools won’t allow users to clean most log and registry files, and users can’t find these files manually. Therefore, to deeply and thoroughly clean unneeded files on a Windows computer, a third-party computer cleanup freeware is a better option.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard can be called the best Windows cleaner. This tool supports Windows 11/10/8/8.1/7/XP/Vista system to use the “PC Cleaner” function to thoroughly scan your disks and system to filter all unnecessary files, then users only need one click to clean the selected junk files.

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 for a while until the scanning process completes. If you want to stop, just click "Cancel Scan".

Step 4. After the scan is completed, all kinds of available junk files will be listed. Then, tick the junk files 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, click "Back" to exit.

Now, all unneeded files will be cleaned.

Further reading: Clean C drive via moving installed apps to another location

Besides cleaning junk files, if your C drive is stuck in a dilemma of insufficient space or you’ve received a low disk space warning on your computer, then you can upgrade the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard to the Professional Edition, to unlock more helpful features.

Here, if you find that there are some programs installed on your C drive, you can choose “App Mover” to move them to another drive/disk to release more free space on the C drive. After the move, all programs can be booted from the new location without reinstalling, all related files are safe.

Step 1. Upgrade to the Professional Edition, go to “Free up” > “App Mover”.

Step 2. In the pop-up window, go to “App Mover”.

Step 3. And in the new window, choose the partition that you want to free up via moving apps and click “Next”.

Step 4. In the window, all movable apps on the C drive will be listed. You can choose one or multiple apps that you need to move and the destination partition. Then click “Move” to execute the operation.

Step 5. Confirm that you have closed the apps that you will move from C drive to D drive. Then, click "OK".

Step 6. Wait for the move process to complete. Then, click "Finish".

Ending lines

As a computer cleanup freeware, AOMEI Partition Assistant is a high-cost-performance tool for Windows PC. Besides basic junk file cleaning, it can deeply clear all unneeded files and offers you more than one plan to release free space for your needs.

What’s more, the Professional Edition includes more handy features like clone disk, MBR/GPT data-safe conversion, etc. In addition, there is the Server Edition for Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012(R2)/2008(R2)2003.