Hi,

I'm looking for good maintenance programs for windows xp. I use the following programs maybe you guys can recommend some good programs to improve my computers performance.

Avast Antivirus
CCleaner
Spybot Search and Destroy
Tunexp

Any recommendations are welcomed

A lot can be done withinn windows, with out any other software.

Start, Run, type msconfig. Disable any start up programs you don't need

Defrag regularly, chkdsk regularly

Also, a lot of windows services are unneeded, depending on what you;re using your PC for.

The only other additional software I use are:

Adaware
Spybot
Avast

And I also disable most of the visual effects within XP via control panel, performance and maintenance

sticky's are your friend

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70743/

Ccleaner is the best i'd say for removing junk files, i love the registry thingy on it too... Auslogics if u dont want to pay for the Diskeeper which i personally think is the best defragging tool, but Auslogics works really great too..

Other programs are

AVG free edition
CCleaner
Diskeeper
Auslogics Disk Defrag
Auslogics Registry Defrag
Your Uninstaller!
Adaware free edition

Nice post, Gtox, you might want to put those (and more?) here:
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71070/


Eraser is a secure file deletion tool you might find use for.
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/