I'm trying to clean up the barsteward pc and make it a bit faster.

Can anyone recommend a genuinely free registry clean up tool?

All the "free" ones i have downloaded first tell me how bad my comp is, and then tell me its £20 to buy the software to fix the problem!

I have also defraged, deleted programs, deleted temp files, spybotted as well.

What else can I do?

ccleaner

ccleaner is quite literally all you need in this regard. it is marvellous.

Good lads thanks for that. you're both a lot better than google!

What windows version you running? XP needs about 1gig of ram. Reg cleaners dont do an awful lot. ccleaner is a great solution to cleaning up pc's, cleared out 1.7gig out of a works laptop!

Just did ccleaner and the rig seems to be running a fair bit faster.

much nicer in fact.

running xp.