Yeppers playing Suzy Homemaker on your system on a regular basis will keep it running like a swiss watch.
CCleaner
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
Spybot
http://www.filehippo.com/download_spybot_search_destroy/download/b763aa941921c015e87a3faa80fb350c/
findjunkfiles
http://www.brothersoft.com/find-junk-files-119783.html
auslogic defrag
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download
Also run disk cleanup from the drive properties. Like was said turn off anything you're not using.
Things in the tray use up ram as they remain in a prelaunch mode.
From a hardware perspective make sure the fans and fan opening are clean and not blocked. Heat build up can cause some systems to throttle back increasing responce time and reducing over all system performance.
CCleaner
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
Spybot
http://www.filehippo.com/download_spybot_search_destroy/download/b763aa941921c015e87a3faa80fb350c/
findjunkfiles
http://www.brothersoft.com/find-junk-files-119783.html
auslogic defrag
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download
Also run disk cleanup from the drive properties. Like was said turn off anything you're not using.
Things in the tray use up ram as they remain in a prelaunch mode.
From a hardware perspective make sure the fans and fan opening are clean and not blocked. Heat build up can cause some systems to throttle back increasing responce time and reducing over all system performance.