If there is anything more frustrating than trying to finish a term paper on a slow computer, I do not know what it is.  I spent the entire first year of college struggling with my incredibly sluggish laptop.  Although I asked friends what to do, they were  as clueless as I was.  Just when I was ready to throw it through a window, a friend told me about the registry cleaners he had read about recently.  I looked up the article and decided to try one of the recommended products.  To my amazement, my computer behaved like it was new again.  It sure made the next three years of school a lot easier.