Doing a little system cleaning but looking for advice

[bryan123]

Hi all. Happy Holidays. Since 2010 is near ending i decided to do a deep clean on my system like check for viruses and clean the hard drive and etc. I already ran the chkdsk utitly and thats all i did so far and it just got completed actually. Now what are some tips for cleaning out a windows 7 starter acer netbook. i think i might have a lot of junk. and also if someone could me with cleaning the INSIDE if possible of my netbook like for dust and all. and one more thing whats a good free online virus scanner except for norton or trend micro housecall?

[jaydeee]

one care .live .com is a microsoft tuning tool that I find good and reliable.
Ccleaner is also another tool that I consistently use for system deep cleaning.

just my 2cents.

[Dodge]

http://www.piriform.com/ Get Ccleaner and Defraggler both. Use the registry tool that comes with ccleaner and it will help clean out lost of junk in the registry. Defraggler does a much better job at Defragging your Hard drive than the Windows defrag.

[MaDef]

You can also use add remove programs to uninstall programs you've installed but don't use,
while there you can also turn off some windows features that you don't use.