I am now a PCPitstop subscriber. I just installed, purchased and used the optimizer, and all I can say is that I am seeing dramatic improvement in the performance of my old Dell 4500S... It's like a whole new machine... thanks for this thread and your tips...
I recently downloaded AT&T/Yahoo's replacement for SBC/Yahoo software and IE7, and have been experiencing page hangs and odd delays. So I thought I would give it a shot. So far, results are great.
Looks like I have some more I can do to improve things, but I'm really happy so far: