Statler’s Rogue Valley Views

About CCleaner and Autoruns:

How to fully de-gunk a PC of Crapware

TCPView (go to bottom of page to download) gives an overview of all connections. By double clicking on a listing the program using the connection is listed.

I found the reference to this program at alt.fiction.original of all places

A nice list of processes,what they do, and comments about them at neuber.com

Find another process list at http://www.processlibrary.com/

There’s also Process Explorer which gives an overview of all processes running and where they’re running from. Again, go to the bottom of the page to find the download.

And then there is this little program that will check the Start Menu and the System Registry for items that load at startup

Then there is HijackThis. And a friendly tutorial on using HijackThis

http://www.freebyte.com/antivirus/
Free tools

msconfig

http://www.pchell.com/linkto/processlibrary.shtml
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php?filter=&letter=L

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm

Number of fonts
Reduce the number of fonts loading.

PCHell

1) Open My Computer
2) Double-click on Drive C
3) Click on File, New Folder and title it Fonts Backup
4) Double-click on the Windows folder to open it
5) Double-click on the Fonts folder
6) Highlight the fonts you wish to remove, click on Edit and choose COPY
7) Navigate back to the C:\Fonts Backup folder and PASTE these fonts into your backup folder
Return to the Fonts Folder and right-click on any fonts you previously copied to the backup folder, then choose Delete.

Static IP
Shave seconds off boot time by assigning a valid IP address instead of using DHCP

BOOT.INI
Timeout: should be like 3 sec

Malware
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/