Speed Up Windows 10

Give windows a shot in the arm by cleaning up and optimizing your pc.

- Nick Peers

Spring is in the air, so it’s the perfect time to take a virtual vacuum to your computer. Every year, it’s the same old story: Despite your best intentions, you rapidly lose control of what goes on to your PC, as programs are installed and forgotten, while gigabytes of files— from documents to photos and videos— are copied multiple times to a myriad locations, clogging up your hard drives. The result? A computer that’s slow to start, performs sluggishly, and is approaching the limits of your storage capacity.

The changing of the seasons brings the whiff of new life, and again, you resolve to clean out your PC, and see whether you can bring it back to those heady days of its youth, when it performed with a noticeable zip. And this is where we come in. We’re going to reveal all the tips and tools you need to get your PC properly cleaned up and raring to go. We’ll avoid snake-oil remedies, such as Registry cleaning, to focus on techniques that actually make a difference to your PC’s performance.

We’ve split the feature into four sections, enabling you to take your cleaning as far as you wish. Don’t want to dig too deep? Our light clean focuses on quick and easy ways to clean out space using only those tools provided by Windows itself. Feeling a bit braver? We introduce a couple of tools that go further than Windows does. Then we move on to tackle the problem of duplicate files, helping you preserve just the essentials, and freeing up tens (or hundreds) of gigabytes in the process.