Cleaning up WinXP 
I've been meaning to clean up the missus' winxp laptop for quite a while now. It had slowed down to the point of being completely unusable. Followed some of the tweaks from:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1494&page=2and turned off mcafee ( avira is much better) and some other unused apple crap. The machine is blazing along now.