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XP has the "windows rot" problem. After it has been in use for a couple of months, it slows down significantly and especially booting it takes forever. Some peo
by TwoSheds 16y ago
XP has the "windows rot" problem. After it has been in use for a couple of months, it slows down significantly and especially booting it takes forever. Some people claim that they can avoid this but I have never seen any hard evidence :)
- Maro 16y agoThere's a free tool called Sysinternals Autoruns (autoruns.exe) which lets you remove all kinds of startup/resident crap. I use it to clean up every couple of months, and as a result my XP is as fast as after a fresh install.
- rbanffy 16y agoThere is pagedefrag, also from the sysinternals folks. That said, Linux doesn't have a similar Linux rot problem. I have some installs that have been going since 2002 or so, with successive "apt-get dist-upgrade"s crossing releases without much significant trouble except a ssh key regen.
- norswap 16y agoI manage to do pretty well. A good uninstaller (which performs deep scans), a defragmenter (MyDefrag is best) and CCleaner will do the trick. But it's true that a little reinstall once every few years can't give a slight speedup. Nowadays I tend toward a nomad setup (using portable apps) anyway, so it's even easier.