Speed Up an Old Windows Laptop

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Every computer gradually gets slower over time. One reason behind this can be that your hard drive partitions become overpopulated with unused and junk files. You must delete these unused/junk files in order to speed up your Windows PC.

Going through your hard drive manually can be tedious. Although many third-party tools are available to help you optimize your computer and clean all the junk files from the hard disk drive, you can use Windows built-in Disk Cleanup tool.

With the help of the Disk Cleanup tool, you can remove junk files, temporary internet files, and all other unused files with just a few mouse clicks.

Here is how:

■Log on to your Windows PC with any administrator and go to the desktop screen.
■On the desktop window, press the Windows + R keys combination to open the Run box.

■In the Run box, type the CLEANMGR.EXE command, and hit OK.




■On the Disk Cleanup: Drive Selection box that opens up, click the Drives drop-down list to select the desired partition that you want to clean, and press OK.




■Once the Disk Cleanup box appears, wait until Windows calculates the available disk space.




■Once done, on the next interface, click to check the checkboxes representing the target files/containers that you want Windows to clean up, and hit OK.




■On the opened Disk Cleanup confirmation box, click Delete Files to continue cleaning.




■Once you have done everything, wait till the cleaning process completes successfully.




■Restart the computer, then start using Windows normally.