Squeezing the Sweet Bejesus Outta Me PC

[Benny2guns]

If it is online leave the antivirus running on startup.
Your welcome.

Just a couple words about defrag and disc cleanup
If you do it on a daily basis it takes next to no time at all to do and your pc will work tip top all the time. The longer you leave it undone the slower your system will get and the longer it will take to clean up.
One of the things i like about windows 7 is i can set it to preform these tasks by itself at a given time every day if i want to and i do. My pc's are never switched off so they clean themselves up every morning at 3.

But that can be done in windows XP Task Scheduler to.
Heck if you want you can have it start a MP3 file (will start media player) and set it like an alarm clock to..
And if you defrag once a week, then schedule it to defrag on a night that you are sleeping so it wont matter if it takes a little longer.

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If the hard drive is 90% full wont that slow it down to unless you configure the virtual memory to stay static?

Not sure about it but i would think no. As for xp and task scheduling, i never ever tried that and infact i did not know you could. With W7 the first time you defrag you are presented with the option of doing so. I thought it was a great way to do it.
On your 90% full question again, I have a few drives that are full as in 1Tb drives with 50Mb's free space and i don't see a differance in speed but you could be correct still with some systems and some drives. HD tune shows no differance anyway. Have you found differant results on your end?