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[Solved] How to Speed Up a Slow Acer Aspire Laptop

By Sophia | Last Updated

"Why is my Acer Aspire laptop running very slow? My Acer laptop works very slow recently, which makes a lot of troubles for me. And it takes long to boot. What can I do to make my Acer laptop run faster?"

Many users agree that Acer Aspire laptops work perfectly at the first a few weeks or months when they buy it. However, after using for a period of time, the Acer Aspire laptop will become slower and slower and even start freezing or unresponsive when using it. Such experience must be very annoying especially when you need to do your work or something urgent with your computer. Is your Acer Aspire laptop running slower and slower? Does your Acer Aspire laptop become lagging when you surf on the Internet? If yes, look at here and learn How to Speed Up a Slow Acer Aspire Laptop.

Contents:

  1. Suggestion 1: Remove Virus or Malware in Your PC
  2. Suggestion 2: Clean Up Hard Drive to Free More Space
  3. Suggestion 3: Disable Some Unwanted Startup Programs
  4. Suggestion 4: End the Processes of Unnecessary Apps
  5. Suggestion 5: Extend the Virtual Memory via This PC
  6. Suggestion 6: Disable Some Performance Features
  7. Suggestion 7: Replace Your Hard Drive with a Larger SSD
  8. Suggestion 8: Find and Remove Duplicate Files on Acer Aspire Laptop

speed up a slow acer aspire laptop

Suggestion 1: Remove Virus or Malware in Your PC

Are you using an Acer Aspire laptop running with Windows 10 OS? If yes, when you notice that your Acer Aspire laptop is running much slower than before, you need make it clear whether your computer is infected with a virus or malware. It is known to all that Windows 10 is susceptible to virus and many other types of malicious software. Even though these virus or malware do no huge damage to your system, they will slowly slow down your computer invisibly. So you should troubleshoot these virus or malware regularly and remove them. You can use Windows Defender to protect your computer from malware and other potentially unwanted software.

Suggestion 2: Clean Up Hard Drive to Free More Space

Is your Acer Aspire laptop slow and unresponsive? If you never or hardly clean up your Acer laptop, there must be too many junk files left in your computer. These junk files will occupy large disk space on your drive and slow down your computer. You need to clean up these junk files in order to make your PC run faster. You can use iSunshare System Genius to clean up and optimize your computer in simple clicks.

1. Scan and Clear Junk Files and Invalid Registries

Step 1. Download and install iSunshare System Genius in your Acer Aspire laptop, run it and then you need click the Scan button to scan all kind of junk files and invalid registry entries in your computer.

click scan button to do a comprehensive scanning

Step 2. Then you will get the report of registry scan result and junk file scan result. Under each result, you can get some information like different categories of the files and how much space they take up respectively. In order to speed up your computer, hit the Clean button to clean up all the useless files to free up more space.

click clean to clear all useless files

Step 3. After you have finish the cleanup process, you can tap OK to confirm the result. Then you can close the software of iSunshare System Genius.

2. Clean Up System Disk with the "Release" Button

Step 1. After installation, double click the software icon on your Acer computer in order to run it. Then move your cursor to the function of System Disk and click it.

select the function of system disk

Step 2. On the System Disk Cleanup interface, you can see how much space are available in your system drive. And you can know how much space which can be cleared from the upper right corner of the interface.

check available disk space

Step 3. Click the Release button to clean up your system disk. After cleanup is finished, tap OK to make sure and now you can exit the software. Releasing more free space for your system drive will help your PC run faster.

click release to clean system disk

Extra tip: If you have many duplicate files on your Acer Aspire laptop, which may also be one of the reasons for the slow running of your PC, iSunshare DupFiles Genius can clean up the duplicate files on your Windows computer with one click, it can also free up disk space and improve your PC performance.

Suggestion 3: Disable Some Unwanted Startup Programs

If you have set too many startup programs which will start themselves automatically when computer boots, this will slow down the startup process of your computer. So you can disable unnecessary startup programs to make your computer boot faster. You can achieve this through Task Manager.

Step 1. Access to Task Manger in your computer and then go to the tab of Startup. You will see all the startup programs there.

Step 2. Look for the program that you don't want it to start automatically, right click it and choose Disable.

disable unwanted startup program

Alternatively, you can also use iSunshare System Genius to manage these startup programs. To do this, open the software of iSunshare System Genius and select the function of Startup on the sidebar. In the Name column, find the program that you want to disable and then click the button of Disable to disable its self-starting mode.

click the button of disable start

Suggestion 4: End the Processes of Unnecessary Apps

If your Acer Aspire laptop is running very slow, you can check whether you are running too many Apps at the same time. If yes, you can end the process of unnecessary Apps which take up too much memory so as to speed up your laptop. This operation can be also executed in Task Manager. Go to Task Manager > Processes, right click the target App and then choose End Task.

end the process of unnecessary app

Suggestion 5: Extend the Virtual Memory via This PC

Virtual memory can compensate for the physical memory through temporarily transfer data from RAM to disk storage. So you can try to extend the virtual memory to speed up your Acer Aspire computer.

Step 1. Right click This PC, choose Properties and then click Advanced system settings.

click advanced system settings

Step 2. Under the tab of Advanced, click Setting in the part of Perfomance.

click setting under performance

Step 3. In the Performance Options panel, go to the Advanced tab, click the Change button under Virtual Memory.

click the change button under virtual memory

Step 4. Uncheck "Automatically manage paging file size of all drives", click the drive that contains the paging files you want to change, click Custom size and type a new size in the Initial size or Maximum size.

click custom size and set the value

Step 5. Click Set > OK to save changes.

Suggestion 6: Disable Some Performance Features

Some virtual effects and performance options may clog your system. So you can disable some of them to see if that would help to make your Acer Aspire laptop run faster. To do this, you need repeat the Step 1 and Step 2 described in Suggestion 5, and then you can continue:

In the Performance Options panel, under the tab of Virtual Effects, remove checkmarks next to options as desired and then click the OK button to confirm.

disable performance features

Suggestion 7: Replace Your Hard Drive with a Larger SSD

If all above can not effectively improve the efficiency of the computer, it means that the computer equipment is aging. There is no doubt that old hard disk drive will run slower and slower over time. And after using for a long period of time, it has the risk of unnecessary data loss. So the last but not least suggestion for you is to replace your hard drive with a larger SSD. SSD can make your computer run faster. If you worry about how to move your Windows 10 system from your HDD to SSD, there is no need. You can use a software like CloneGo to help you Move Windows OS from HDD to new SSD within just a few clicks.

Suggestion 8: Find and Remove Duplicate Files on Acer Aspire Laptop

The memory on your computer's local hard drive is limited and a large number of duplicate files can be one of the main reasons for Acer Aspire laptops to run slowly. Therefore, if you want to speed up your slow laptop, it is necessary to find and delete duplicate files on it to free up memory space. iSunshare Dupfiles Genius is an expert in locating and deleting duplicate files on a laptop, and it can do this job in half an hour.

Step 1. Download and install iSunshare DupFiles Genius on your Acer Aspire laptop.

Step 2. Launch the software. Click the "+" button at the bottom right corner to add the hard drive to be scanned. Then click "Next".

choose where to scan

Step 3. Customize the scan settings. You can select specific folders, file types, and file sizes for scanning. Once you have completed the settings, click the "Start Scanning" button.

custom scan-options

Step 4. Wait for the scanning process to finish, Dupfiles Genius will find all duplicate files that consume disk space for you. You can right-click on the selected file to preview its exact content.

duplicate files report

Step 5. Check the box in front of the duplicate file name and click the "Delete" button to remove the duplicate files from your Acer Aspire laptop.

delete duplicate files

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