After owning a computer for a while, you may notice that it is slower than when you first got it. Fortunately, there are a number of things you can do to speed up your computer and make it run like new again.

Removing unnecessary files, applications, and other "junk" is an effective way to speed up any computer. Ridding your computer of these unnecessary items frees up storage space for your important stuff and helps with overall performance.

Delete junk files. You have several options, but one of them is to use a free system cleaner like CCleaner to erase unnecessary files in the Windows operating system itself and third-party programs like your web browsers, which like to accumulate large, safe-to-delete cache files.

If these temporary Internet files and other useless items are left around for too long, they can not only cause programs to crash, become unresponsive and slow, but they can also take up valuable space on your hard drive.