Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71443/ 2008-11-22T19:14:43-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71443/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2008-05-07T18:03:22-05:00 Reason http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71443/#535360 Nice post, Gtox, you might want to put those (and more?) here:<br /> <a class="ext" href="/content/topic/71070/" target="_blank">http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71070/</a><br /> <br /> <br /> Eraser is a secure file deletion tool you might find use for.<br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/" target="_blank">http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/</a> text/html 2008-05-07T08:24:21-05:00 GtoX (capt Guns) http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71443/#535340 Ccleaner is the best i'd say for removing junk files, i love the registry thingy on it too... Auslogics if u dont want to pay for the Diskeeper which i personally think is the best defragging tool, but Auslogics works really great too..<br /> <br /> Other programs are<br /> <br /> AVG free edition<br /> CCleaner<br /> Diskeeper<br /> Auslogics Disk Defrag<br /> Auslogics Registry Defrag<br /> Your Uninstaller!<br /> Adaware free edition<br /> <br /> text/html 2008-05-07T05:59:53-05:00 ~Vel http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71443/#535338 sticky's are your friend<br /> <br /> <a class="ext" href="/content/topic/70743/" target="_blank">http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70743/</a> text/html 2008-05-07T05:51:08-05:00 Kieran Blenkarne http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71443/#535337 A lot can be done withinn windows, with out any other software.<br /> <br /> Start, Run, type msconfig. Disable any start up programs you don't need<br /> <br /> Defrag regularly, chkdsk regularly<br /> <br /> Also, a lot of windows services are unneeded, depending on what you;re using your PC for.<br /> <br /> The only other additional software I use are:<br /> <br /> Adaware<br /> Spybot<br /> Avast<br /> <br /> And I also disable most of the visual effects within XP via control panel, performance and maintenance text/html 2008-05-07T05:11:57-05:00 Edg0020 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71443/#0 Hi,<br /> <br /> I'm looking for good maintenance programs for windows xp. I use the following programs maybe you guys can recommend some good programs to improve my computers performance.<br /> <br /> Avast Antivirus<br /> CCleaner<br /> Spybot Search and Destroy<br /> Tunexp<br /> <br /> Any recommendations are welcomed <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)">