You need a tip? Heres one. Dig it.
By getting rid of the new feels and looks (the title bars and the taskbar) you’ll speed up your system. Also, don’t use images for backgrounds. A good detailed large image of your dog takes up memory.
You paid for the memory; KB by KB, and you paid it so that your applications could use it. Don’t let a picture that you cover up most of the time hog all the memory.