im a perfectionist (i hate junk! lol), my girlfriend went on holiday so i had 2 weeks so i got bored n decided to order some new parts and when i went to add them inside my pc.. it was a mess so i just decided to fully sort out my pc, including windows. I just wanted a challenge and it was one lol, but backed all the tweaks up so i don't have to do them again.. thank god! vLite helped alot though, like getting rid of anything i didnt need including IE, then some of my own removals. Getting a Quad Core soon so that should be even better n also maybe another SSD later on too. @puntoMX you only listed like 10 things which i did theres 23 in total n the lots more part... quite alot of tweaks i did get off google so easier looking on there for some tweaks. disable unused services helps too and if i stop using a program i uninstall it and all the files which came with it, also my computer defrags itself at night times (dunno if that actually helps though).