There are times IE comes in handy, though.
Believe it or not, there are sites all over the Internet that are still coded to only work properly using IE. This is criminal, IMO, but using IE-Tab in Firefox is pretty handy. Programs that force-load MSIE ought to be banned, though.
CCleaner is a good tool, yes. Nlite and XP Lite I've not heard of before today.
I agree that VLC is a useful (and powerful!) video player, though. I've seen it play things no other video player would touch, allowing me to preview the file as it came across, often allowing me to determine if the rest was worth downloading. In many cases, that's a definite no, especially since most video files are large even by today's standards.
