Sure they are good things to do but they only cover part of the picture. You really can't beat a clean install. I've got it down to a fine art now and can do the whole thing in about 1hr 15min.
By the way my friend is very right about defraging. If any of you are downloading and deleting loads of megs on your hard drive will be in tatters in as little as a week - so if you havnt already - get defragging!
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