More helpful programs.....

While I was house-cleaning the other computer's clogged XP system yesterday, one of the first things I did was get the latest versions of the Wise Disk Cleaner and Wise Registry Cleaner from the above website. Both of these come in freeware versions as well as the paid-for ones, and the freeware works very well. It scans through your system, and locates items like registry keys for programs that no longer are on the machine, and other temporary stuff that can safely be turfed, and then it separates these into two groups: safe to delete, and not safe to delete. It will then delete those safe-to-delete ones, and keep the others. These even come with a feature for 'one-click cleaning', so that if you click on that icon, the process is all automatic, and all you need to do is wait for it to finish (it's quick) and then do a reboot. These are handy programs, especially if your operating system has been in use for a while and may have collected some useless clutter.