I want to clean up my laptop

I actually want to do a clean sweep of the entire thing, meaning clean up my hard drive, kill whatever viruses are on it, etc. I dont really have anything important on it that I would need to back up, but I have no idea how I would go about wiping all the garbage from the HD besides manually deleting everything.

I also want to get rid of Vista. I know there are other OS out there, but I want something light and doesnt take up all my RAM and maybe on the free side.

Are there any programs out there that are a must have that would better organize my pc?

I know these are broad questions and I appreciate anyone who tries to help!

1) grab your dick
2) download Windows 7 (free until some time next year; you can get a key from microsoft but you have to download it from a torrent) or Ubuntu
3) install
4) ???
5) profit

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Originally Posted by Nermy2k

1) grab your dick
2) download Windows 7 (pirated no key version)
3) install
4) ???
5) profit

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re-start under safe mode (press f-8 when computer boots and select safe mode) .
click start
click on the RUN icon
type msconfig
select the startup tab
then UN-CHECK the programs you DO NOT want to load when windows starts. (Be careful not to un-check something important)
sometimes you have too many programs running at startup, not giving your operating system a chance to do anything.
Also do a virus check and SPYWARE check while you're in SAFEMODE. I'm betting you're gonna have a few of each.