Client Management Suite

I read that with interest, as that's what I do for all systems - not just Office.

Put the pagefile on the fastest hard-drive, sometime in it's own partition (maybe along with the TEMP folder)

Removing the pagefile, defragging and re-creating the pagefile is fine, as long as you have plenty of free space, otherwise it could be created as a fragmented file - so you would need to run pagedefrag again.

I have yet to find a registry "cleaner" that really, really, really, does clean up all the mess in there :o) but it  was interesting that Sys Internals (now owned by Microsoft) isn't compatible... hmm... better make a note of that ;o)

I just evaluate the free TweakNow RegCleaner 4.1.1, seems really nice.

There is a noticable difference in performance

Interesting article, just for help in finding more information about this topic and others, I suggest to check directly to the Technet article.
Thanks for this helpful document.
Paolo

Wow, this actually really helps. There is a noticable difference in performance. I actually found the article on my own the other day, but you really have to do some searching to find it on Microsoft's website. Thanks for the easy link.