Nice list, I use CC Cleaner.
Thanks for sharing.

perfectly agree with ccleaner.
that is one of my favorite tool.

A few notes and suggestions:

With MSConfig, be careful about what you uncheck. Of course staying with only the Startup tab as suggested is a safe route. There are some programs you may want to start up with Windows such as your anti-virus, firewall…basically your protection software. Things like DVD checks, Adobe gamma loaders, media players, PDF readers, essentially programs which are not necessary to run your system or protect your computer are okay to remove from your startup.

A few suggestions on speeding up your system:

Microsoft’s built-in firewall and security center are good, but they do hog resources and can interfere with some programs. The firewall itself can cause media players to freeze. Disabling the firewall and automatic updates and notifications will reduce background running programs which are big resource hogs, and you can replace with freeware such as AS3 Personal Firewall and use an anti-virus such as the free version of Rising AntiVirus, both of which use few resources compared to other programs of their ilk.

You can disable Security Center and Automatic Updates from the control panel, and check for updates manually via Internet Explorer using Windows Update under Tools.

Windows uses a portion of the hard drive, a small portion comparatively, for virtual memory, which is essentially an overflow memory to take the load off of the RAM memory. Unfortunately by default, Windows constantly monitors and resizes the virtual memory, and of course this uses resources.

Locking in virtual memory, meaning setting the minimum and maximum size of virtual memory to the same value so that it never has to be resized, will free up resources in Windows.

You can do this by right clicking on the My Computer icon on your desktop, or from control panel click on System. In the System Properties window that comes up, click on Advanced, then Performance Settings, then the Advanced tab in performance settings.

Now you’ll see a box that says Virtual Memory, and click on Change. In the window that pops up, select Custom, then for Initial and Maximum values enter the same value. Since most of us have substantial hard drives now, you should enter the maximum value Windows allows for virtual memory which is 4096 MB for both values. If you have an older computer, and/or small hard drive, enter 2.5 times the amount of RAM your computer has for both values (e.g. for 512MB of RAM, you would enter 1280MB for both values). Then click Set, OK. The window will close, and then in the remaining window click Apply, then OK.

BEFORE you lock in virtual memory, defrag your hard drive using the built-in Windows Defragmenter (Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter) or a freeware defragmenter. You need to have your hard drive defragmented or else your virtual memory will end up fragmented, which kind of defeats the purpose of locking it in.

Hope this helps.

Dos (no relation to Microsoft)

Good Stuff! Keep ‘em coming!