[Advanced] Fixing up a sluggish Win7 machine

Excellent instructions for a savvy techie on what to do to fix a sluggish Win7 machine:

2012: Fixing a sluggish PC link

My take on the steps: [all apps mentioned here are free for personal use]

Slow at bootup:

1. install and run Soluto (site), then follow its recommendations

Slow while running:

1. reduce size of Recycle bin to 2% of disk space
2. reduce size of IE temp-files storage space to 5MB or 10MB
•  IE Tools=>Internet Options=>Temporary Internet Files=>Settings
3. run CCleaner (installable version, portable version)
4. check pagefile size (the less RAM you have, the more critical it is to have large pagefile size)
• go to Control Panel=>System=>Advanced tab=>Performance - Settings...
• in the Performance Options dialog, go to Advanced=>Virtual memory - Change...
• turn on "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives"
5. install and run Secunia's free Personal Software Inspector (PSI) (site) 
6. defrag system