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ACleaner 5. Red Button 5. Every time you open a new program, or copy a big file, or try and use Photoshop, your PC feels like an old person. There are two types of programs that can contribute to slowing down your PC. The first, and least problematic, are programs that are not being used by you and not even by your computer.

In essence, they are just wasting space for no good reason. Do this to your old programs and it will free up space on your PC.

Remember, more free space on your PC means a faster PC. The second type of programs that slow a computer down are those that run on startup. Note: We recommend that you do not uncheck windows services and only uncheck programs that you recognize as unnecessary. Whether you realize it or not, your PC is creating all kinds of temporary files every day. These can be cache files, browser history files, or other types of files that are created to help your programs and system run more smoothly.

Instead, many of these files are permanently left to take up space on your PC hard drive. As your hard drive becomes full, your PC will start to slow down. This whole 7-step task gets much easier with CleanMyPC. Be careful when closing processes!

You can close a process from inside Task Manager. Select the process and click the End task button and confirm your decision. Be wary if Windows warns you that a process is critical to Windows.

When you search for a word across all the files in your Documents library, the results come up almost immediately. On the General tab, uncheck Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties. In the resulting warning box, select Apply changes to drive C:, subfolders and files. Windows may take some time turning off the indexing.

Type indexing in the Cortana field. Select Indexing Options. Click the Modify button near the lower-left side of the resulting dialog box. This brings up another dialog box, with two sections. Start in the bottom section of the dialog box, Summary of selected locations.

Click any of these options, and it changes the contents of the top section, Change selected locations. Unchecking items in that top section will stop indexing in those specific locations.

These are all tasks that could be accomplished within Windows itself, but having them all in one location is much more convenient than trawling through menus.

In case you're wondering, Ashampoo takes its name from this optimization software, which cleans your PC 'like a shampoo'. If your system struggles when you're trying to get your game on, Razer Cortex could well be the answer.

This free PC optimizer suspends unnecessary system processes, clears out memory and defrags your system to get the very best game performance possible. Razer Cortex is available for Windows 7, 8 and 10, and while the differences won't make you jump up and down in astonishment - for most people the results will mean slightly smoother visuals rather than astonishing performance improvements - it does automate the fiddly process of turning off unnecessary software and services when it's time to play.

Daryl had been freelancing for 3 years before joining TechRadar, now reporting on everything software-related. If you have a story about an updated app or one that's about to launch, drop him a line. North America. There are many free PC cleaners and optimizers that claim to deliver noticeably faster performance, but not all live up to the hype.

View Deal. Iolo System Mechanic. Specifications Operating system: Windows. Reasons to avoid - Some features premium-only. Reasons to avoid - Limited free version. A hands-off approach to optimization that's ideal for novice users.