Thanks to the concise driver installation guide at NBF, I discovered this great tool. CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware utility that cleans and optimizes your computer. It is a little more deluxe than past utilities I have written about and warrants a look.
CCleaner found 1.7 GB of temporary files and cached ’stuff’ on my notebook - which I maintain on a regular basis so this was a surprise.
Its registry cleaner purged about 200 keys, remnants from uninstalled programs. The integrated Startup configurator detected several tray utilities that I do not need.
These tweaks, that required about 15 minutes of my time and a single restart, decreased my notebooks start-up time by 20 seconds. And disk thrashing after start-up is all but gone.
