Speeding Up A Pc

[Terminator]

anyone know of any great utilities out there (not window washer0 that they used to speed up their downloads or pc in general?

[sparsely]

There isn't any software that can increase your download speed condsierably, but the registry tweaks at SpeedGuide.net
can help if you're on broadband (DSL or Cable). General speed-up practice would be to get rid of unnecessary stuff
loading on startup and running in the background....you can use RegCleaner or something similar to do that, use
SpyBot/Ad-Aware to get rid of any Spyware that may reside on your comp., and defragment your hard drive(s)
regularly. I do mine once a week.

goodluck