DLL clean up tool?

[augiem]

Does anyone know of a good tool to clean up dlls and trash that's thrown into the windows directory by software installs (XP)? I've been using this format for about 1.5 years now and things are getting really bogged down (startup mainly). I normally format and wipe every year and a half or so but I'm in the middle of a lot of important stuff and can't do it anytime soon.

I've already taken control of the startup programs and some of the services, so that's not the problem. I also ran CCleaner and cleaned up a bunch of junk from the registry. But if I'm not mistaken, windows loads all the DLLs and shared DLLs into memory on boot-up. I'm assuming there's a lot of old stuff no longer needed bogging the system down, otherwise why would this be the case?

Driver cleanup might be nice too.

Augie

 

[Nothinman]

But if I'm not mistaken, windows loads all the DLLs and shared DLLs into memory on boot-up.

You most certainly are mistaken, shared libraries are demand loaded when a binary needs them and not before.

If you're sure that it's not something else on startup the only thing I can think of that might be causing extra stuff to be loaded at startup is prefetch.