best way to speed up your PC

 Well. let's put it this way: your computer is SLOW, it takes HOURS to start, and you're a NOOB (aka someone not that keen on PCs)? This is a <u>free</u>, advanced tool to rejuvenate your computer

nCleaner is an advanced system and application cleaner, (be careful, it has such options like erasing your whole mail/spam folder), a Registry Cleaner, a Tweak Manager, an advanced Startup Manager, a Junk Finder, a Free Space Shredder, a System Resource Monitor, a System Adviser as well as advanced Scheduling.

and it's overall superior to the much more common CCleaner (even if i use them both, since they occupy only a few MB!!)

 here some specs from the manufacturer site (http://www.nkprods.com/ncleaner)

• Name: nCleaner second
• Version: 2.3.4
• Price: FREE (only for non-commercial use)
• Size: 875 KB
• Release date: 06 July 2007
• Category: System Optimizer
• Platforms: Windows XP, 2003, Vista

With nCleaner you can:

• Clean over 80 Windows system and applications items (locations) + over 100 application plugins, making your system faster, more stable and protecting your privacy.
• Clean your registry and fix Windows errors.
• Monitor your system resources to maintain a certain amount of free disk space and optimize memory usage.
• Monitor you system using the System Advisor and correct critical Windows errors.
• Optimize system memory usage.
• Protect your privacy by shredding all deleted clean items (using professional algorithms), so they cannot be recovered using specialized recovery software.
• Add custom files and folders to be cleaned on each system clean.
• Choose which cookies you want to keep and which you want removed.
• Shred free space on all hard disks and partitions, so that previous deleted files cannot be recovered using specialized recovery software.
• Tweak your system to protect your privacy by enabling or disabling hidden Windows features that could have allowed intruders on your system.
• Tweak your system to make it faster and stable by disabling unnecessary features and services and recover resources.
• Use predefined Tweak profiles to enable the best Tweak configurations.
• Use the advanced Startup Manager to see ALL objects launched at startup including services and system objects.
• This powerful module allows you to spot hidden viruses or unwanted applications and disable them.
• Use the advanced Startup Manager to save a list file with all objects that are launched at startup.
• Find unnecessary files on your system (backup files, log files, invalid shortcuts and many other) and remove them.
• You can also add your own files you want to scan for and remove.
• Schedule cleans at startup, shutdown, on browser close at specific time based intervals.
• Maintain log file with all actions and the time when they occurred.
• Maintain advanced statistics on how you use nCleaner and its effect.
• Choose one of 4 shredding algorithms for best privacy protection or clean speed.
• Password protect key, sensitive features in the application while still allowing cleaning the system.
• Clean your Windows Vista based system.
• Manage system Services. Disable, start, stop Services.