Now, in the window which then appears, to also remove any system file clutter, click on Clean up system files, and then wait for another scan to finish. This launches Disk Clean-up, which begins a scan that could take a minute or so to complete.
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Next, under Administrative Tools at the bottom, click Free up disk space. Right click on the Start button (bottom-left Windows icon), and select Control Panel from the menu that pops up. For example, Skype is a high impact app, and takes quite some time to load, so if you're not a heavy user, you might want to consider ditching it (it's one program that automatically adds itself to your Start-up library).Īs well as cleaning up Start-up programs, cleaning out general clutter is a good idea once in a while to help keep performance levels solid. You can also see in the Start-up Impact column whether a program has a high, medium, or low impact (high impact slowing things down most, of course) – and you can use that info to help you pick what you might want to disable. If you want to stop an application loading itself, click on it, then click the Disable button bottom-right. This lists the programs which boot up on start-up, and their status – enabled or disabled. The Task Manager appears with the Processes tab active, but you need to click on the Start-up tab. Left click on Task Manager, and that will pop into view. On the desktop (we're working in the desktop for all this article, not the Metro interface), right click on the taskbar – the bar along the bottom of your screen, and make sure you click on a blank bit of space, not a running program or folder – and a menu pops up. Luckily, it's easy to see which programs are booting with Windows, and switch them off if needed.