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For a a Dell Dimension 3000 XP home edition, that has 512 MB Ram, 34 Gig Hard drive; five users, and many applications installed; Pentium 4 2.79 GHz. Of the 34 GB drive, 30 GB is used up.

I am upgrading the ram and HDD.

I am not in a position to put a clean windows xp on it yet. In the meanwhile, could you suggest a list of utlities/tools that I can run to clean up my best of the system:

Here is a compiled list below.. kindly add to it or suggest otherwise..

thanks

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/ :: JDiskReport
http://windirstat.info/ WinDirStat
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm Regseeker
http://www.revouninstaller.com/ revouninstaller
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
EasyCleaner
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

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Thanks for the links. I am trying them now. I have already tried some, but they all check and they let me know I need to register to see what they can do in real sense. (For example, it says it found 1200 errors, but can fix only 12, and will have to register to clean the rest).

The ones i tried so far are
regcure
ccleaner

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anushahanna

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I have downloaded easy cleaner, it says it can clean up the startup files, but that also includes some window32 files. Is it ok to remove them or will it be detrimental when starting up (after removing the some of the system startup files)?

I am trying tweaknow now, it ran and said 264 errors, and the option to fix it. It said it completed it, I click analyze again, and now it says in the same category 164 errors. I ran again, now it is in single digits. Does this make sense?

and with Xin XP, do I have to run these tools for each user?

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All your advice was very helpful, and will the list provided for future reference.

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