Tips Spring cleaning for Windows 10

When cleaning up your home for the Chinese New Year, the team can probably chaos also do with cleanup.

Here's a handy guide on how to clean, de-clutter and speed up your Windows PC with a focus on Windows 10th

1. Perform a virus and malware

This analysis ensures that your installation of Windows is faulty. Avira Free Antivirus, for example, is free and tests for viruses and malware. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is another free program, but focuses only on the removal of malicious software.

2. OLD uninstaller

This frees disk space. Just click on Start and then click "All Programs" and click on the program that you want to trash and choose "Uninstall."

You can also click on the Start button and select "Programs and Features". Select an application to uninstall it. Windows Store apps and traditional desktop applications, go to Settings> System and "applications and functions" which lists two types of applications to remove.

3. Large file size Delete old

Find out which files recording more storage with integrated Windows 10 analyzer.

Go to Settings> System> Memory and select a player.

Windows displays a list of categories and files with their sizes.

See if there are large unused files that can be deleted.

If you want something more, Space is a free alternative that does the same.

Another option is a showman who works with any Windows system, and analyzes the content of the chart folder.

4. Dispose of garbage

Use the Remove Disk Cleanup in Windows unneeded files on your hard drive.

Go to Settings> Control Panel. Enter "admin" in the search field, and select Administrative Tools> Disk Cleanup tools space.

Select the drive you want to clean and press "OK".

Then select the files you want to delete, press "OK" and "Delete Files".

To delete the system files, click "clean up system files" on.

5. FROM APPS slow start system

After installing some applications will start at the same time, completed the system is started. This can be useful - it reduces the charging time of the programs in common use - but it can also slow down the boot process.

To see the programs that are loaded at startup, press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC Windows 10 on the "Home" tab. Click to delete all unused.

Windows 10 will also tell you which programs have the greatest impact on boot speed.

6. Defragment your PC

An old but Goldie method to speed up your Windows machine is the hard drive to defragment, if you use a SSD (Solid State Drive).

If so, Windows 7, 8 and 10 to avoid automatic way to do it.

If you are using Windows 7 and above on a hard drive, the system can be configured to automatically perform defragmentation at regular intervals, so you do not have to manually do it.

But if you have activated this function, or often your PC every time they no longer change use, can Windows have not defragmented the hard drive at a time, in this case, you can can do it manually.

Click the Search button, or go to Settings and search for "defrag". Select you want to defragment the drive.

Defragmentation will tell you when the disk has been defragmented, and if you do not need to optimize now or is.

If you are unsure, click to check "Disk Analysis".

If the level of fragmentation on the disk in the "Last Run" column is greater than 10 percent, it is recommended to defragment the hard drive.

7. Clean the bar of Windows 10

Tasks of Windows 10 comes with new icons, but can be disabled for a clean appearance.

Do not use if you do not virtual desktops (called Task View in Windows 10), click the taskbar and uncheck "Show the task view."

To the search box high Cortana an icon, select Search and select reduce "show icon Cortana."

If you do not want to use Cortana, check the "Hidden" box to remove it from the taskbar.

Contributing to the tasks or re Cortana the right mouse button on the taskbar and check again the same options.

If you have embedded elements in the task bar with more, click the entry and select "Disconnect from the taskbar."

8. Disable all notifications

Finally, turn off the annoying messages, so you can concentrate on your work.

Go to Settings> System> Notifications and actions, and change it.

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