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System Performance Help

Jul 16, 2011 12:31AM PDT

I recently had a tech at Dell doing a clean up on my Dell Dimension 8300 which has Windows XP. The program that he ran clean stuff that had been stored on it that I never knew was there and free up a ton of space. I thought I was doing a good job myself but I guess not. He wanted to sell me a program called System Mechanic but I opt not to right now. Can anyone suggest a program that will clean stored files and other stuff that is taking up extra space to improve system performance.

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Cleaning files out.
Jul 16, 2011 1:57AM PDT

CCLEANER is well known and used by mods here. Use the defaut settings.

But if this is that older IDE based system I always and I mean ALWAYS use the tip at http://winhlp.com/node/10 FIRST.
Bob

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How much RAM and free disk space do you
Jul 16, 2011 5:49AM PDT

have ?

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