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I use Ccleaner with very little problems. I also use NCleaner as a secondary and use the tweak function to speed up XP Machines.

The thing I CAN’T believe no one has mentioned is making sure all of your drivers are up to date! I go to http://www.touslesdrivers.com with Chrome (cuz it will translate the french site) go to “My Drivers” and download the detection addin. Getting back out of chrome, I go to Program files and to ma-config.com and start the detection. This will tell you all your hardware and also allow you to download WHQL drivers to get you up to date. It is even useful sometimes at identifying hardware that you can’t find default drivers for.

And it is Free!

AC

A couple of other notes.

I used to install AVG, but around version 8.5 or 9 I noted WinXP machines slowing down. Looking at the processes, I noticed that AVG had shifted a lot of the load to SYSTEM process, increasing the allocated memory from around 4 Mb to 128 MB!

Also, as AVG notes (I believe) only 3% of the online dangers we face today are viruses. You need to have a suite of protection, whether from one company or made up of different programs. How your AV protection interacts with antispyware could dramatically shift results.

AC

As a computer tech, I’ve been installing MSE on all types of systems with very few problems

One thing to note is that Clamwin is the only AV I have found that still works with Windows 98 !!! Yes, I still have customers using that!

AC

Try out the Ainol Novo 7 Basic Android tablet. I got mine from around $150 and just upgraded to ICS 4.0.3