CCleaner

Download it for FREE at ccleaner.com I have been using ccleaner for a while now(couple years); it is among my top 5 maintenance utilities. It is very easy to use, and relatively safe. I say relatively because it will delete any passwords and user names you might have saved under Firefox, Opera, or Internet Explorer. Other than cleaning junk from your computer, it also cleans the registry. Registry clean-up has been always safe for me, never had any problems. Also, the program has an option to disable startup of unnecessary programs. What I usually do is just press “analyze” to see how much data CCleaner found, sometimes I forget files in trash that I do not want to delete.

This part of CCleaner looks for registry problem, always make sure to backup your registry. When you click on scan for issues, it will automatically ask you if you want to back up the registry.

As you can see I have plenty of disabled (grayed out) files, but still have some programs that don’t need to be loaded.

After you go through all these steps, you will see how significantly faster your computer will boot up and perform.

+ the software is FREE

+has more than one use

-nothing really