A practical guide for extending the life of your Windows XP - based personal computer. A step by step the guide to cleaning, tuning, improving and maintaining the performance of your existing Windows XP-based machine - all without buying a new machine and without installing a new operating system. Make your machine more reliable, more efficient and more useful. A clean machine is a faster machine. Common problems that Maintaining Windows XP - A Practical Guide will help you overcome include: Running out of disk space? Figure out what to toss and what to keep, and different ways to make more room. Start up slow? What you need to know to examine and evaluate what's starting automatically. If you've never looked - it's a lot - and often a lot more than is needed. Get rid of a bunch! Machine bogging down while you're using it? How to tell why, and what to do about it. Applications crashing? Look at some of the most common causes and what you can do to resolve 'em. Get your Windows XP machine to behave more like you remember it used to.