[8 Effective Ways] How to Make Windows 11 Faster

Scenario

Reasons for Windows 11 is slow

Why do your computers slow down after upgrading to Windows 11? Generally speaking, it may be due to the following common reasons:

☞ Automatically run startup tasks in the background
☞ Visual effects take up running memory
☞ Too many temporary files
☞ Too much file fragmentation
☞ Problems with the upgrade process
☞ Low system disk space

If you want to know how to make Windows 11 faster, read on. In this post, 8 effective ways will be provided to help you speed up Windows 11.

How to make Windows 11 faster from different angles

When you find that Windows 11 is running slowly, you may first think of uninstalling unwanted programs, checking for Windows 11 updates and rollback to Windows 10. Apart from these basic methods, you can also try the following ways to make Windows 11 faster according to your own situation.

│Method 1. Disable startup programs 

We often ignore such programs in our computer: they start automatically when you start the computer, take up hard disk space and slow down the operating system. After encountering these programs, you can disable them to make Windows 11 faster.

Step 1. Press "Ctrl+Alt+Del" to open the "Task Manager", then click "Startup" to see the startup programs.

Step 2. Right-click on the programs you want to set and choose "Disable".

│Method 2. Delete temporary files

Temporary files refer to the files that are created when you download and install programs. Usually, temporary files are automatically deleted when the programs finished, but sometimes some files may stayed in the drive. If these abandoned temporary files are not cleaned up for a long time, they may take up much drive space.

Step 1. Right-click the C drive, then click "Properties" and "Disk Cleanup".

Step 2. It will scan your C drive and calculate the space you can free up. Please select the files you want to delete and click "OK".

│Method 3. Disable visual effects

Windows 11 is loved by many users for its exquisite interface. However, it is undeniable that the view effect is also an important factor in slowing down the operating system due to taking up more GPU load.

Steps 1. Click "Windows" and input "View advanced system settings" to open it.

Step 2. Click "Advanced" and "Settings" in turn.

Step 3. Tick "Show thumbnails instead of icons" and "Smooth edges of screen fonts".

Step 4. Click "OK" to save all settings.

│Method 4. Free up space via Storage Sense

If Windows 11 is slow due to insufficient disk space, you can try to use Storage Sense to free up space for speeding up Windows 11. Storage sense is a useful cleaning function that comes with Windows, which aims to save disk space.

Step 1. Open the "Settings", then click "System" and "Storage".

Step 2. Turn on the Storage Sense (It is off by default), then click the target drive and select unneeded files.

The methods mentioned above are aimed at some basic reasons that make Windows 11 slow. When your Windows 11 is slow due to low disk space, excessive file fragmentation, and so on. Please find the solution of how to make Windows 11 run faster in the following content.

│Method 5. Wipe the whole hard drive

How to make Windows 11 faster? If none of the above four methods can answer this question, you can convert to a third-party software to do it. Here, I recommend AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. In a user-friendly interface, it is not only able to solve the problem of insufficient disk space with "Wipe Hard Drive" and "Allocate free space" feature, but also defrag disk to speed up Windows 11.

In the "Wipe Hard Drive" function you can choose 4 methods to restore HDD to peak performance: Fill sectors with Zeros, Fill sectors with random data, DoD 5220.22-M and Gutmann. Here, we will describe the detailed steps to wipe hard drive with DoD 5220.22-M.

Please download the Demo Version to see how to make windows 11 faster.

Step 1. Download and install AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, right-click the target drive and click “Wipe Hard Drive”.

Step 2. Click "DoD 5220.22-M" option and choose the times rewrite.

Step 3. Click "Apply" to confirm your settings.

│Method 6. Allocate free space to extend system space

The slowness of Windows 11 may also caused by low space on the C drive, so in order to speed up Windows 11, you can extend available space on the C drive by allocating free space from another drive to C.

Step 1: Open AOMEI Partition Assistant, right-click drive D and select "Allocate Free Space". 

Step 2: Set the size and choose the C drive, then click "OK".

Step 3: After checking the pending operations, click "Apply" to commit the whole operation.

│Method 7. Defragment the hard drive

Excessive fragmentation of files in the system drive can also cause Windows 11 to slow down, because the system will repeatedly search for the contact files when performing operations, which greatly reduces the reading efficiency. But you don’t have to worry at all, because AOMEI Partition Assistant pro can still help you defragment the system drive.

Step 1. In the AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, all drives and their partitions are displayed, right-click the target disk and select "Disk Defrag".

Step 2. Click "Schedule" in the window ejected.

Step 3. Select the C drive and preset defrag frequency, then you can decide on what conditions to defrag.

Step 4. You can also choose to start the defragment when startup or log in the computer.

│Method 8. Migrate Windows 11 to SSD

As we all know, the performance of SSD is much better than HDD: faster speed, lower temperature, less noise, etc. So how to make your Windows 11 faster? Migrating Windows 11 to SSD can give you the answer.

Tips:
✎ Before the migration, you should connect the SSD to your laptop first (Prepare an external SATA to USB adapter if the PC is a laptop; if it’s a desktop, you can install it directly).
✎ The unallocated space of this SSD must be larger than the used space of the current Windows 11, if not, please reduce the used space first. 

Step 1. Install and open AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, then click "Clone" and "Migrate OS".

Step 2. Select an unallocated space on the SSD and click "Next".

Step 3. Change the size of the system partition in the ejected window.

Step 4. Click "Apply" and "Proceed" to complete the migration.

Step 6. After successfully cloning Windows 11 to the SSD, you need to turn to the Boot Menu and set the new SSD as the boot drive in the boot priority section.

Note: If the speed of this SSD doesn't meet your expectation, you can try the partition alignment to improve the performance of Windows 11 in this new SSD.

Verdict

Don’t know how to make Windows 11 faster? In this post, 8 advanced ways have been shared . Through the introduction, you may have experienced the four powerful functions of AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. Besides, it can also help you change file system, convert dynamic disk to basic, and so on. By the way, if you use Windows Server, we also designed the corresponding the Server Version.