Computer Cleanup for Windows XP

1. Run CCleaner (ccleaner.exe) 
*If you don’t use CCleaner, see below.

2. Run Disk Check, this will take awhile:

Open My Computer, right click on a drive
Choose Properties, then select the Tools tab
Do each of the following for each drive:
- Under Error-Checking, click Check now
- Select Automatically fix file system errors
- Select Scan for and Attempt recovery of bad sectors
- Start  (for the C: drive, read message and click yes.)

     Restart your computer

3.  Defragment the drive (this could take awhile): 

Hint: Get a better defrag by rebooting your computer in Safe Mode (Press F8 at startup).

     - Open My Computer, right click on a drive
  Choose Properties, then select the Tools tab
- In the Defragmentation section, click Defragment Now …

More Left over stuff to look for in the C drive:

Uninstall leftover folders for Service Packs:
- Open My Computer
- Browse to C:\Windows\
- Look for $NTxxx$ folders and delete

*If you don’t use CCleaner, do the following:

A. Choose Start, All Programs, Accessories, System tools
then select “Disk Cleanup”, Okay
- Choose file to cleanup. The default is probably good.
- Click Okay, then Yes.

B. Cleanup ~*.tmp and *.asd files:
- Click Start, Search, All files and folders
- Type in file name criteria  ~*.tmp  *.asd
- Click Search
- Select all the files that are found by using <Ctrl> A
- Press <Delete>

C.  Continue with step 2 above.